Andrew Cullison

Here’s an interesting op-ed from The Wall Street Journal. A Dartmouth professor is “threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights.” Here’s more from the article. Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of “French narrative theory” that it [...]

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I just discovered Phd Comics today. I’m posting two of the strips below. Here’s a link to their top 200 rated comics.

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This is interesting. A while back I posted about some pretty interesting cognitive science studies about people having certain perceptual seemings that are caused by their expectations to see a certain object. Here is that post. Then, I suggested that experiments of this kind in cognitive science might cut against attempts in experimental philosophy to [...]

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I just posted Dr. Joshua Thurow’s introductory level lecture titled “Is Morality Real, or Do We Make It Up?” over at the website for the Young Philosophers Lecture Series. SPREAD THE WORD! The more people who know about this and watch it, the more likely it is we’ll be able to fund more lectures. Here’s [...]

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I’m starting to warm up to the idea that there may be a kind of rational inference (apart from disjunctive syllogism) from a known disjunction. This is very half-baked, but here’s the idea - suppose you’ve got a known disjunction (P or Q). Suppose you know that P is possible, but you’re not sure whether [...]

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I just arrived in Madison for the Wisconsin Epistemology Conference. It’s going to be awesome. The line-up of speakers is great. Kudos to Juan Comesaña for organizing this. I’ve got some ideas that occurred to me on the plane. I’ll post them in a bit, but right now I’m going to go find breakfast. Stay [...]

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Someone visited my blog by searching “What is Wide Scope Descriptivism?” This is a pretty great coincidence because I’m currently working on a paper arguing against Wide Scope Descriptivism (aka Widescopism). To that person: Here is the first paragraph of that paper. I hope it answers your question. Widescopism is a version of descriptivism about [...]

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Funny article from The Onion [HT: Justin Conroy] Tyler Hansbrough Staying In School To Take This One Awesome Philosophy Class CHAPEL HILL, NC—University of North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough told reporters yesterday that his decision to forgo the NBA Draft and return for his senior year stems from a desire to “take this one awesome [...]

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