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The word on Twitter that Ted Sider is now a mereological nihilist (See here and here). Evidently, he defended this view at the Pacific APA four days ago. I’ve already been regretting not going to the Pacific APA this year. All reports indicate that it was awesome, and this is just one more reason to [...]
Filed under: metaphysics, philosophy by Andrew Cullison
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Consider two trolley cases. In the first case, you can save your life, by flipping a switch. However, the blast will blow the train off the track and kill an innocent bystander who is standing by the side of the train tracks. Call this person Sam. The other trolley case just moves the location of [...]
Filed under: ethics, philosophy by Andrew Cullison
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We spend about $1.3 million dollars on technology each year. I just looked at the details concerning how that $1.3 is spent, and it seems pretty clear to me that a switch to open-source software plus some cuts in spending on computer labs would easily give us the resources to buy every student a netbook. [...]
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Introduction I am the Technology Associate for our Professional Development Center. Part of my job is to test out technology that I think could have useful applications for faculty and staff. I’m giving my first presentation this morning, and I will be using this post (instead of something like powerpoint) as a kind of interactive [...]
Filed under: educational technology by Andrew Cullison
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So I figured out a way to make it VERY, VERY easy for Sympoze users to submit links to philosophy blog posts from Google Reader. It’s as easy as clicking the “share” button. That’s it. Anytime, you click the share button, the blog post you’re reading will be automatically submitted to Sympoze in your name. [...]
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Philosopher’s Digest is a new online (open access!) resource for philosophers. Here’s the description from the site. Philosopher’s Digest is a tool designed to help philosophers stay abreast of interesting work in the field by publishing short reviews of articles appearing in top journals.  Articles are selected by our reviewers for the significance of the [...]
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I was just invited to contribute an article to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Frege’s Puzzle! I said yes this morning, and within a few minutes my name was already up on the site where the entry will go. This is not an April Fools’ Joke - Click here and scroll down to the [...]
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