Descriptivism Meets Gettier Talk at Northwestern

I’m giving a talk at Northwestern today called “Descriptivism Meets Gettier” as part of their Epistemology Brown Bag Lecture Series. I’ll post a draft of the paper later (I’ll likely want to make changes after the talk), but here’s the basic idea. I think Descriptivism (about semantic content) is committed to certain speakers having knowledge [...]

Filed under: epistemology, philosophy of language by Andrew Cullison
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Google Docs Tip for Acadmics: 3 Reminders to Give Students

Here’s the Quick Tip Tell your students to make sure they can edit the file in Google Docs before sharing (especially if they’re uploading .wps and .doc files). Remind them to leave the “Convert to Google Docs format” option checked when uploading. Remind them to leave the “To Edit” option checked when sharing. Here’s the [...]

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Dear Afraid-To-Major-In-Philosophy,

Dear Afraid-To-Major-In-Philosophy, I saw today that someone searched “afraid to major in philosophy” and found my site. I can only assume it was you. I hope you found my Why Major in Philosophy Page, but I thought I’d post the link here just in case. Sincerely, Andy p.s. Go for it

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Google Docs Tip for Academics: Saved Searches

A while back I outlined 10 reasons to have students submit papers using Google Docs. Now that I’ve used Google Docs for two terms, I have some tips and suggestions to make using Google Docs easier on you and, generally, more awesome.

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My First Android Guys Post

I’m now a contributor at AndroidGuys. Android Guys has been one of my favorite places to get Android related news since the first Android phone launched, and so I’m pretty excited to be able to help these guys out. You can check out my first post here.. It’s a video review/demo of Scan2pdf Mobile. Here’s [...]

Filed under: android, educational technology, google phone, open source, research tools, teaching by Andrew Cullison
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Robot Socrates Dialogues

Lewis Powell made this, and you all owe him your respect, admiration, gratitude, and praise. We are all indebted to him for this awesome-ness.

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Windows and Apple Declare War on Google

Within a week of each other, Windows and Apple declared legal war on Google in two separate arenas. Windows Earlier last week the European commission started an anti-trust probe. There were suspicions that Microsoft was behind some of the complaints. Last Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that they were. (Aside: If Google is guilty of anti-trust violation, [...]

Filed under: android, educational technology, google phone by Andrew Cullison
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