Andrew Cullison

Jonathan Schaffer presented a paper (just a few hours ago) on a view he favors called contrastivism. Contrastivism is the view that knowledge ascriptions express a ternary relation - S knows that P rather than Q. The more traditional view is that knowledge ascriptions express a binary relation between a person and a proposition. According [...]

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I’m in Pasadena with another former Rochester graduate student, Andrei Buckareff. I forget how good it is to talk to Andrei. We ran the gamut last night on LEMMing issues. We also talked about his work on The Problem of Hell. If you’re interested in philosophical theology, his work is well worth reading. Andrei wrote [...]

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Here is the must see session of the day. II-A. Author-Meets-Critics: Jennifer Lackey, Learning from Words 4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA Chair: Peter Graham (University of California–Riverside) Critics: Jonathan Kvanvig (Baylor University) Matthew Weiner (University of Vermont) Author: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University) All three of the speakers are fun presenters to watch, and they’re great philosophers. [...]

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I’m in Phoenix. First blog post from an airport. I’m rushing, so it’s got me thinking about typos. Which is really awesome given the main thing I want to post about here. One worry about blogs is that you may rush yourself and publish too quickly. You’re bound to miss typos. Sometimes I’m bad with [...]

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A reputable physics journal withdrew an offer to publish an article because the scientists posted some of their findings online. This is yet another reason to push open-access.

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I’m off to the Pacific APA in a couple of days. The following week is our spring break. I assume that I’ll have decent internet access while in California, so posting should continue. I’m commenting on a good paper on causation by Jonathan Matheson. Here’s the abstract (pulled from the Pacific APA website). Fragile Events [...]

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Two weeks ago, I finished a fun time-travel novel, and it’s still haunting me.I thought I’d blog about it. The book is a little slow-going and long, but worth the read. The main character, Kivrin, is a history student at Oxford in about 2054. In 2054 they send history students back in time to study [...]

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Today Dr. James Beebe will present his research talk - A Priori Skepticism. He’s giving an introductory level talk - Fine Tuning Arguments for God’s Existence tomorrow. The Young Philosophers Lecture Series is something I’ve wanted to try and do for a while, and last semester we received generous support from the Carnahan-Jackson Fund for [...]

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I’ve been ranting about Open Access Journals - Here and Here. I just found out about a discussion on Leiter’s Blog from a couple of years ago called “Time For An End to For Profit Journals,” - [HT: Philosophy, et cetera] Also, there are three recent posts out there in the blogosphere on this issue. [...]

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The good news is that I’m going to the Pacific APA next week. The bad news is that I’m flying with Southwest Airlines.

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