Andrew Cullison

In a previous post, I argued that philosophy should push toward publishing in Open Access Journals. Here’s a list of things I think we need to start doing to realize that shift. Some of these will seem quite obvious, but we might as well have the list anyway. 1. Everyone Start Submitting to Open Access [...]

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There’s a lot of talk in philosophy about gender. Most of the focus is on how weird gender expectations/norms affect women. But there are weird gender expectations/norms for men too. For example, the Man Hug. This is pretty funny, but it is also a pretty accurate description of the norms that seem to govern man [...]

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This is a very interesting article in Seed Magazine that should definitely be of interest to LEMMings and anyone interested in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. They’re trying to build a model of the brain from the bottom up. Each neuron in the model is an IBM microchip. It’s pretty fascinating stuff, and it may [...]

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Jon Cogburn has been on a roll with some interesting posts discussing the ethics of blind review. Here is his most recent installment. He argues that blind reviewers ought to take what he calls The Good Samaritan approach to reviewing (as opposed to the Professor Angrypants or Joe Friday approach). What are those approaches? Read [...]

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UPDATE [3/9/2007] - How To Make the Move To Open Access JournalsUPDATE [3/8/2007] - I just thought of Pro #12 this morning. See below.UPDATE [3/8/2007] - I just thought of Pro #13 this afternoon. See below.UPDATE [3/8/2007] - I’m also addressing - Con #6. See below.In a previous post, I claimed that philosophy journals should [...]

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Jon Cogburn has an interesting post on the blind review process for philosophy journals here. He also gives us a promissory note to post more on this issue. UPDATE: Here’s the promissory note.

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You’ve gotta love it when a car commercial picks up on the semantic/pragmatic confusion that sometimes goes with the logical connective ‘and’…

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I’ve been writing about Weak Substantivalism. Here are the two previous posts. 1. Two Kinds of Substantivalism2. They Are There: Some Consequences for Weak Substantivalism In the second post, I promised to post about some more counter-intuitive consequences of weak substantivalism. Here they are. More Counter-Intuitive Consequences for Weak SubstantivalismSuppose we have an Andy-shaped bag [...]

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A few days ago I laid out three views about the nature of space-time. Here’s a quick summary of those views. For those of you who read the last post, you can probably skip down to the section titled “They are There” Relationalism - Space is not real. Talk about space is reducible to talk [...]

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