Andrew Cullison

Dan Korman just posted a nice little discussion on Hawthorne’s objection to common sense ontology here. I don’t dispute anything Korman says, but this has inspired to test drive another response to this kind of argument that I’ve been kicking around for awhile. Here’s the quote from Hawthorne that Korman uses. “Barring a kind of [...]

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Update: I finished it. I was just asked to referee a journal submission for the first time. If I don’t post that I finished within the next two weeks - yell at me.

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Here’s a puzzle that Joan Weiner raises for supervaluationism from a recent PPQ paper. The basic idea is that supervaluationism is alleged to be in tension with perfectly acceptable scientific methodology. Here’s a quote from the paper that summarizes the point. This much is certainly true; we want to know whether minoxidil (Rogaine) can prevent [...]

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Last week, I posted about switching to Ubuntu. Many of those reasons are also reasons for colleges to switch to open source software. Universities spend lots of money each year on proprietary software (e.g., Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft Office Suites, Anti-virus software, Course Management software, and networking software.) Universities pay a fee per machine (often [...]

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Here’s the first paragraph of the article. Pittsburgh (PA) – Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University claim to have found a way to predict brain activity when someone thinks about specific words. So far, the catalog of words supported by the technology is limited to only 60 words. However, the simple fact that computers are able [...]

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Well, sort of. I’ve changed to Word Press, and my blog Wide Scope will now be located here. If this picked up in your feed readers (or you received this in an email) - then the transition for you was seamless.

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I am in the process of consolidating my homepage (www.andrewcullison.com) and my blog Wide Scope (www.andrewcullison.com/widescope) into one seamless entity. I’m also switching to Word Press. Blogger was cool for awhile, but I’ve played around with word press, and I like it much more. My homepage and blog (Wide Scope) will both be here at [...]

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