Andrew Cullison

I’ve been switching somethings around on this site. Here’s what’s new. I’ve cleaned up the right hand column - a lot. Philosophy BibTeXs and Journal Mashups are now in a new Resources Tab. The Journal Mashups also have a slightly different look. Let me know if you like the old way or this new way [...]

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Matthew Mullins kicked off Week 3 in our Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion. It’s a nice and neat summary Tooley’s response to Plantinga’s arguments in chapter 1. Keep in mind we’re reading the chapters out of order - so this is chapter 4.

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Every year, before I start teaching I like to think about the cultural background of the incoming freshmen class. It helps me teach and relate to them. It’s also pretty interesting to think about. This year, I decided write some of those thoughts down. I’m assuming that the average incoming freshmen student was born in [...]

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I don’t do much with business ethics, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that there is something wrong with Colgate. I snapped these two pictures at the grocery store over a month ago because I thought it was kind of funny. Compare them. Single Purchase Value Pack Purchase Did [...]

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I was walking through the store looking for my wife’s face soap when the word Zeno jumped out at me. Philosophers will know why - Zeno is a famous Ancient Greek philosopher. I snapped a picture of this acne treatment device (see photo on the left)  because the irony was just too awesome. Let me [...]

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For those of you who have been following - the Senate has approved the new Telecom Immunity and New Eavesdropping Rules. This looks like a prima facie violation of the fourth amendment. If anyone out there can explain to me why it’s not, I’d like to hear it.

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Brian Leiter has some sober advice concerning the philosophy job market this year and next. I’m afraid I have to agree with what he says. The entire State University of New York system is facing massive budget cuts. Here at SUNY-Fredonia, we’ve suffered about a 5% cut in our operating budget. Travel funds are being [...]

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A senior DHS official is seriously interested in EMD Bracelets for all airline passengers. The basic idea is to replace boarding passes with bracelets that would connect passengers with their luggage, serve as passenger identification, enable tracking throughout the airport…oh and they have the abililty to taser you if you get out of line. That’s [...]

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A few days ago, I posted about the Fox News doctored photo incident. The New York Times came out with a good article on the incident today.

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