Andrew Cullison

This seems like a very quick and hasty objection to direct reference theory from Michael Jubien, but it’s interesting. Direct Reference Theory recall is the thesis that the meaning of a name is the thing to which it refers (and nothing more). From the present perspective [direct reference] cannot be right. It is an indisputable [...]

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Great article from the New York Times. Philosophy majors are on the rise. To which I say…good. [HT: Jason Stanley over at Leiter Reports]

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I just got back from the West Virginia University second annual undergraduate conference. It was great! I was invited to give one of the keynote talks. The title of my talk was Epistemic Circularity, and I received some terrific feedback from faculty and students. The other keynote talk was given by Hud Hudson. The title [...]

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Here is a tale of journal woe with a happy ending. Now I’m going to reveal the ending. After fifteen years with no luck they sent their paper on the Two-Envelope Problem to an open-access online journal SORITES, and it got published. Don’t be fooled by the eye-irritating 1995 HTML version of the website. SORITES’ [...]

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Gmail introduces Custom Time. Who says that backwards causation isn’t possible? Never be late with your email again! A pretty funny April Fool’s Day prank. Well, it better be one. Note that in the testimonials column one of the beta testers occupation is listed as an epistemology professor. They also give a shout out to [...]

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Couldn’t a widely read Open Access Journal pay its referees for timely reports with advertising revenues? (Yes, I’m back to thinking about this issue again.) Imagine you’re an editor and you manage to get your open access journal into the top tier. Suppose you get 500 submissions a year that you deem are worth having [...]

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