Andrew Cullison

I am happy to announce that Charles David Cullison was born this morning at 4am - 7lb 12oz. I’ve attached a photo. Mama and baby are well. It was the “best labor ever” (those are Sarah’s words, not mine).

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My application to attend the Purdue Summer Seminar on moral and religious epistemology was just accepted! It’s a summer seminar directed by Michael Bergmann and sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. The email says they selected 14 other applicants. Sitting around for two weeks talking about moral and religious epistemology with 15 philosophers this summer is going [...]

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A reader sent me an email this morning asking if I would share their positive experience with a philosophy journal. This person submitted something to Dialectica and received this PDF. Since this person’s paper is still under consideration, they didn’t want to out themselves during the blind review process. Here’s what this person wrote to [...]

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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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