Wide Scope A philosophy blog that ranges over philosophy and other fun stuff.

My name is Andrew Cullison, and I am an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at State University of New York at Fredonia. I started here in August 2007. This is my homepage and philosophy weblog.

I received my Ph.D. from University of Rochester in May 2006. The title of my dissertation was Foundational Moral Knowledge. My primary research interests are in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. I also do some work in philosophy of religion and meta-ethics. Perhaps the best characterization of my research areas would be LEMMing.

I am married to Sarah Gerkensmeyer. She’s awesome, and so is her fiction. I also have a son Simon. I teach him important things - like what a Wookie says.

Contact
[lastname] [at] fredonia [dot] edu

More About this Site
Wide Scope doubles as my homepage and blog. The blog content will range over my philosophical interests and other stuff that I find interesting. It will probably mostly be me throwing up half-baked philosophical ideas to test the waters for further development.

I’m also the technology associate for our Professional Development Center. Part of what I do for them is play around with cool tech stuff and figure out if there are any useful research or teaching applications. If I find something, I tell people about it. So, in addition to philosophy, you might see some blog posts about education technology.

In the Teaching and Research tabs above you’ll find all of my professional information. In the Resources tab you’ll also find some tools that I resources that I have put together that hope philosophers will find useful.

Why Have a Website?
I sometimes get asked why I would bother paying to have server space for a blog and homepage. I thought maybe I should just answer that question here. Server space is cheap for what you can get out of it. With server space, I can provide services to the philosophical community like Sympoze and Young Philosophers. I have a few other services in mind that I think would be great for the philosophical community, but I’ll need server space to get them up and running. With server space, I can experiment with alternatives to the current array of proprietary course management systems. I can also sync files (e.g. philosophy journal articles) across computers that are stored zotero library. Bottomline: paying for server space gives me a restriction-free, geek sandbox that gives me the freedom to do a lot of really cool stuff.