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I recently reviewed John Hick’s Between Faith and Doubt for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, and I just discovered that it’s already up online. You can check it out here.
Filed under: philosophy, philosophy of religion by Andrew Cullison
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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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Philosophy Talk is having a contest. You can win their entire archive and come on the show if you win. Details here.
Filed under: philosophy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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I am very excited to announce that Sympoze is transforming into an even better service for philosophers. We’re going to use it to crowd-source academic peer-review and create a high-quality open-access philosophy journal and high-quality open-access philosophy text books. I started Sympoze a couple of years ago as a social bookmarking site for philosophers (something [...]
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Woot! I just heard from Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. They just accepted a paper I co-authored with Neil Feit titled “When Does Falsehood Preclude Knowledge”. Here’s the abstract. I’ll post a penultimate version of the paper when I can. ABSTRACT Falsehood can preclude knowledge in many ways. A false proposition cannot be known. A false ground [...]
Filed under: epistemology, philosophy by Andrew Cullison
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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 [...]
Filed under: epistemology, philosophy by Andrew Cullison
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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 [...]
Filed under: philosophy, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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At the beginning of each semester, I teach all of my students about basic argument structure and vocabulary (e.g. valid, invalid, sound, and unsound) and get them familiar with the practice of presenting arguments in numbered-premise form. I’ve started using Google Presentations as a cool way to let them self-diagnose. I’ve created two presentation slides. [...]
Filed under: educational technology, philosophy, teaching by Andrew Cullison
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I was invited to write a critical review of Jennifer Lackey’s book Learning from Words. I just submitted a draft to Philosophical Books for review, but I still welcome comments/feedback. In short, despite the fact that I disagree with Lackey on a number of issues, I think this book is excellent. Here’s a link to [...]
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I’ve posted the penultimate version of my paper “A Defense of the No Minimum Response to the Problem of Evil,” on my research page. It’s forthcoming in Religious Studies. You can also grab it here if you’re interested. It’s a short one, only three pages.
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