Andrew Cullison

UPDATE: Moving to the top for the start of the new semester Here’s something cool you can do with Google Docs. I’ve created a couple of short self-diagnostic quizzes so that students can practice distinguishing between valid and invalid arguments. Feel free to embed these in your own course webpages.

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Some of you may already be aware of Logos and Episteme - a new, open-access epistemology journal. I think this is exciting, and I really hope it sticks. So far things are looking great. They have an impressive advisory board including Ernest Sosa, Alvin Goldman, Susan Haack, Duncan Prichard, and Jonathan Kvanvig. You can check [...]

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I have an awesome idea. I give my students argument extraction exercises so they can master presenting arguments in numbered-premise form. It’s tough because I like to rotate them out so that students who have had me for four years don’t see the same set of exercises. How about we pool our resources and create [...]

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I’ve posted a bit about the Nook eReader, and I also posted that I recently picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab. While playing around with it, I discovered that with a couple of apps you can turn it into a pretty powerful research tool. I wrote about it over at Android for Academics. Rather than [...]

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I thought it would be a good idea to put together a short demo video of the free Attendance app we have on the Android market, so you can see how the integration with Google Docs works. Here it is.

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Thom Brooks just posted some preliminary results of a journal survey he’s been running. Here they are.

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Many of you may be aware of the fact that a leading psych journal is set to publish an article that allegedly supports the thesis that ESP exists. It has set off a debate in the scientific community about data analysis. See the link below. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11esp.html?_r=1&src=tptw The main issue is that some statisticians have long [...]

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I just added 42 journals to the journal surveys page! I don’t think I’ve missed any requests. If you don’t see a journal on the list that you’ve requested, please let me know. I’ve got some other features that I’ll be adding to the survey page soon. For now, get those surveys in and enjoy! Here’s [...]

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