Andrew Cullison

It’s been a little quiet here. I spent the last three weeks at the Purdue Summer Seminar on Knowing in Religion and Morality. It was AWESOME. Met a lot of outstanding philosophers. Had great conversations. Got a lot of great work done. There need to be more philosophy summer camps. I’m going to work on [...]

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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.

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Funny, but I still favor the laptop policy I introduced a few semesters back. Also, (Spoiler Alert) I wish I could have seen the laptop shatter. The video doesn’t catch it.

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Here she is talking about him on Craig Ferguson [HT: John Basl] 6 Degress of Kevin Bacon to Jonathan Dancy 1. Kevin Bacon to Sean Astin (White Water Summer) 2. Sean Astin to Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) 3. Orlando Bloom to Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Carribbean) 4. Johnny Depp to Leonardo DiCaprio [...]

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I don’t believe in magic. At least, I thought I didn’t. Then I started worrying that I might not actually know what the heck it is that I am denying the existence of. So…let’s try to analyze it.

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Bonus points for introducing something like the duplication problem for various theories of personal identity.

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The Monads are back. I suspect a lot of my readers are familiar with the Monads. What you may not realize is that they are back. Kris McDaniel, an original member of the Monads, has revived the group with Ben Bradley and Carrie Jenkins. They are calling themselves “The 21st Century Monads”, and they already [...]

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Sorry, but that was just too awesome not to post here. More philosophy and more journal survey updates are coming soon.

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You know why Lewis Powell is awesome? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle. You know why Lewis Powell is even awesomer? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle this much.

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I’m with Brian on this one (he’s the guy with glasses in the video). Particularly his second thought experiment. Update: The link to the video is here. I took out the embedded video because it automatically plays. Which can be annoying to readers - especially return readers who have already seen the video. More Nuanced [...]

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