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I was born in [[Boston, Lincolnshire]] (actually in Wyberton West Hospital, which no longer
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exists), educated (if that's the word) first at St Mary's Primary School (run by nuns at the time, which probably explains a lot about my later career if you're a Freudian, which I'm not), then at [[Boston
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Grammar School]]. At the latter I successfully navigated [['O'-level]]s, but nearly half-way through my [['A'-level]]s I developed a number of extra-curricular interests which distracted me from my studies. More
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importantly, I began to think rather more broadly than some of my teachers (and especially my appalling headmaster) cared for. This led to an almost total cessation of interest in my 'A'-levels. It did, however, involve a number of stage r&ocirc;les at Blackfriars Theatre and elsewhere, and a good deal of time spent in the
theatre bar.


When I left school at eighteen I headed for [[London]], with the firm expectation of a career on the stage. A year in which I got to know students from a number of drama schools told me that I couldn't spend three years in such company; meanwhile my interest in writing poetry became more intense. I began performing regularly, especially at the Troubadour in [[Earls Court]], and grew increasingly confident about my work.
==About me==
*Born: [[27 March]] [[1956]] in [[Boston, Lincolnshire]].
*Academic qualifications: B.A. (Middx), B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxon.)
*Current employment: [[Pembroke College, Oxford]] ([http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/profiles_academic.cgi?profileid=247])
*E-mail address: peter dot king at philosophy dot ox dot ac dot uk
*My [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337 Web pages]
*My ''[http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shil0124/cv.pdf curriculum vit&aelig;]''


I became involved with the [[National Poetry Society]], then based in Earls Court, helping with the magazine and with various events, and in 1976 I published my first slim volume (''A Secret Tear'').  This was followed by
*Main interests
''Deja Vu'' and ''insofaras''.  My income was supplemented by readings, work in schools, and some broadcasting (Capital Radio).  I also organised the occasional Poetry (sometimes with jazz) Festival, and ran workshops (at the Centre in Trafalgar Square and at the Riverside Studios). I started my own small press (tapocketa press), and then collaborated with Alaric Sumner on a magazine (''words worth'').  (For some of my poetry, including some of my later translations &ndash; with [[Andrea Christofidou]] &ndash; of modern Greek poetry, see [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/poems.html here].
**'''Philosophy'''
**[[Metaphysics]], [[moral philosophy]], [[philosophy of religion]], [[early-modern philosophy]] (i.e. seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy), [[African philosophy]]
**'''Other'''
**[[Music]]: [[baroque music]], [[blues]], [[classical music]], [[early music]], [[folk music]], [[jazz]], [[rembetika]], [[rock]], [[traditional music]]s, and more (see [http://rateyourmusic.com/~Peter_J_King Rate Your Music], where I'm a site moderator)
**[[Poetry]], [[fiction]] (including [[science fiction]], [[detective fiction]]) (see my page at [http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Bibliosporias BookCrossing])
**[[Film]]s
**[[Gardening]]


All this came to an abrupt halt for various reasons, and I took a dull and ordinary job &mdash; temporarily, until I got my poetry activities together again. Three years later I was still in that temporary job, and I suddenly realised that I was in danger of running myself into very deep rut. My way out (though I had positive reasons for taking it as well as the negative reasons) was to do a degree.
*I occasionally join in discussions at [http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/member.php?u=83036 The Student Room].


In 1980 I went to [[Middlesex Polytechnic]] (now Middlesex University), where I read Humanities
*At Citizendium since: [[11 February]] [[2007]]
(though after the first year I did little but Philosophy, and some computing). I'd been interested in Philosophy for about a year, but the course deepened and strengthened that interest.  I had some excellent teachers, the options were varied, and the course was flexible.
**I made my 500th edit here on [[7 April]] [[2007]]


My tutors convinced me that if I wanted to continue with philosophy I had to apply to the [[University of Oxford]] to read for the [[Bachelor of Philosophy|B.Phil.]] Somewhat reluctantly I applied, and somewhat astonishingly I was accepted.  So in 1983 I left Middlesex Poly for the dreaming spires.
==Articles started==
(Aside from disambiguation pages, category pages, etc.)
*'''Music'''
**[[Jazz]] (from scratch)
**[[Pythagorean comma]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Rembetika]] (from scratch)
**[[Syncopation]] (from scratch)


My College was [[Brasenose College|Brasenose]].  After matriculating in 1983, I spent much of the next few years
*'''Philosophy'''
under (rather than in) the College library, in the Hulme Common Room. In Oxford I began to get involved with music in a fairly big way, playing in a band called originally Captain Swing, but then (after Michelle Shocked unforgivably stole our name for one of her tours) Akouste!  We played a wide variety of
**[[African philosophy]] (based on Wikipedia article)
music, mainly traditional from many countries (the British Isles, France, Galicia, Greece, Cyprus, China, Japan, etc.), but also South African kwela, the blues, some renaissance, and some of my compositions. We played in pubs (for three years we played every week at the Bullingdon Arms in Cowley Road), for functions such as weddings, balls, fund-raising events (especially for Education for Democracy in South Africa), and for a while we had a regular slot at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art. In addition I played for a while with the Oxford (Javanese) Gamelan.
**[[Design argument for the existence of god]] (from scratch)
**[[Euthyphro dilemma]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Lyceum (Aristotle)]] (from scratch)
**[[Miracle]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'' (from scratch)
**[[Ontological argument for the existence of god]] (from scratch)
**[[Philia]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Philosophical theology]] (from scratch)
**[[Philosophy of religion]] (from scratch)
**[[Pythagoras]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Sempiternity]] (from scratch)
**[[Strato of Lampsacus]] (from scratch)
**[[Time]] (from scratch)


After various ups and downs I finished up with the B.Phil. and the [[Doctor of Philosophy|D.Phil.]], and was faced with the unnerving prospect of losing my long-term identity as a student.
*'''Religion'''
**[[Confessions (Augustine)]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[God]] (''ex nihilo'')
**[[Manichaeism]] (from scratch)


I'm currently [http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/profiles_academic.cgi?profileid=247 Lecturer in Philosophy] at [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], and I teach on a casual basis for many of the Oxford Colleges, as well as for the [[University of Georgia]]'s Oxford Programme.  Apart from professional papers, more popular articles, and reviews, my first book is ''One Hundred Philosopher'' (2004: U.S. &mdash; [http://www.barronseduc.com/0764127918.html Barron's]; U.K. &mdash; [http://www.apple-press.com/description.asp?bookid=2234 Apple Press]; Australia &mdash; [http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=160490 ABC Books]), which has been translated into some forteen or fifteen languages.
*'''Orts and ports'''
**[[Boston, Lincolnshire]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Common Era]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Dramatic arts]] (from scratch)
**[[Enheduana]] (from scratch)
**[[Hippocratic Oath]] (from scratch)
**[[Incunabulum]] (from scratch)
**[[Pembroke College, Oxford]] (based on Wikipedia article)
**[[Tetanus]] (from scratch [of course])
**[[Theatre]] (from scratch}


See also my ''[http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shil0124/cv.pdf curriculum vitae].''
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My Web page (in need of up-dating) is [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337 here].
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