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[lastname] [at] fredonia [dot] edu
About Me
My name is Andrew Cullison, and I am an Assistant Professor in philosophy at State University of New York at Fredonia. I started here in August 2007. This is my homepage and philosophy weblog - Wide Scope.
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I received my Ph.D. from University of Rochester in May 2006. The title of my dissertation was Foundational Moral Knowledge. In addition to epistemology and ethics, I have research interests in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. 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 have also recently become a dad!
About this Site
This site doubles as my homepage and blog, Wide Scope. 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.
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 hope philosophers will find useful. Check out my Journal Mashups and Philosophy BibTeX files, and discover what wonderful things Web 2.0 can do for philosophy.
The Blogroll tab displays the most recent posts from philosophy blogs I’m reading.
Why andrewcullison.com?
I sometimes get asked two questions:
- Why pay to have your own site and domain name when you can get university server space for free?
- Even if you decide to pay, why have it be .com? Isn’t that commerical?
In regard to the first question, I have way more freedom with respect to the site if I host it on a private server. I’m not even talking about the content of my posts. I’m talking about the tools I use. Some universities won’t let you install blogging CMS programs on the space they give you. Everything is much simpler if I have my own server space. There are a lot of technical restrictions to deal with, and if you like to play around with these other tools - it’s much easier to have your own sandbox with no restrictions.
Regarding the second question. I chose andrewcullison.com rather than .net or .org primarily because it’s easier for people to remember and the traditional rule of thumb regarding .com being for commercial purposes and .org/.net being for non-commerical use has already pretty much faded away.
I’m not selling anything. I’m a philosophy professor and this is a blog where I’ll write mainly about philosophy and things that I think will be of interest to philosophers