Andrew Cullison

It should come as no surprise to you guys that I love the Android OS. It should also come as no surprise that I think the Android OS has enormous potential benefits/applications for academics. I am now proud to introduce Android for Academics. The purpose of the site is two-fold. First, I’m working with an [...]

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I was reading some of the literature on qualia recently, and I was struck by the use of the term qualia freak. Qualia Freak is a label for someone who endorses the view that phenomenal experiences cannot be individuated by what they represent. Qualia freaks believe that experiences must be individuated by some intrinsic feature [...]

Filed under: epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy by Andrew Cullison
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I’m writing this blog post by talking into my phone. That’s because android phones recently updated with new firmware. The keyboard on the new firmware includes a speech to text option, and it is awesome. There are so many ways that this speech to text function would make an academics life easier. For example i [...]

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My paper, “Two Solutions to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness,” just came out in American Philosophical Quarterly today. I just received my copy of the issue in the mail. Here’s a link to the issue on their website. If you don’t have access to APQ, here’s a link to the penultimate draft.

Filed under: philosophy of religion by Andrew Cullison
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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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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 [...]

Filed under: educational technology, teaching by Andrew Cullison
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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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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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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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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.

Filed under: fun by Andrew Cullison
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