Andrew Cullison

I just posted Joshua Thurow’s research talk over at Young Philosophers. The title is The A Priori Defended: A Defense of the Generality Argument. Check it out. Also, don’t forget that the deadline to be considered for our Fall 2008 lecture series is August 15th. Spread the word. Call for papers is here.

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Matthew Mullins posted this gem a couple weeks ago, but I just now discovered it. It’s great! Especially if you’re interested in the mind-body problem (and the possibility of thinking machines). The short film below is based on this short story.

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This is interesting. A man in Connecticut was denied an interview to join the police force because his IQ was….are you ready…too high! Story here.

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Story here. In other news - I’m still loving the switch to Ubuntu and LaTeX.

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I just posted the BibTeX file for Philosophical Review. It only goes back to 2000 because that’s as far back as I can get from the journal’s website. I’ll probably be able to go back further if I use Philosopher’s Index.

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Eric Schwitzgebel has done some number crunching on the political affiliations of American philosophers. Here’s a link. It’s pretty interesting.

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Ben Caplan and Carl Matheson defend a view they call musical perdurantism. According to musical perdurantism, musical works are mereological fusions of performances. Here’s a possible objection - works of music can exist prior to performances. Suppose Beethoven wrote a symphony and then crumbled up the paper and threw it away so that it was [...]

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I’ve just added a BibTeX file for Australasian Journal of Philosophy from 1998-2008. I’ll be filling in the current bibtexs with earlier dates. I’ll also be adding more soon. I also had to move the column down. I was having some formatting problems with the widget. I’ll try to fix that later. For those of [...]

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For those of you who use BibTeX files to manage your bibliographies, have I got a treat for you. Introducing Philosophy BibTeX files. I just recently generated BibTeX files for Mind (1975-2008) and Nous (1997-2008). You can download them from the right hand column. My goal is to have BibTeX files for all of the [...]

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Here’s a funny discussion about the attempt to prove that Kate Moss used drugs on film.

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