Andrew Cullison

I’m teaching special topics course in epistemology this year. We’re going through Michael Bergmann’s new book Justification Without Awareness. I thought it would be fun to post quick summaries of the chapters here, and critically discuss them along the way. Here’s a quick summary of chapter one. Chapter One In this chapter, Bergmann develops and [...]

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We’re going to start going through Michael Bergmann’s book Justification Without Awareness in my special topics seminar. I had a lot of fun with our Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion, and I thought it would be good to do something similar for each chapter in Bergmann’s book. So starting next week I’ll [...]

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Net-neutrality debates and the issue regarding re-instating a metered internet are starting to get more MSM attention. Here’s a recent New York Times article that came out yesterday. And here’s a related, interesting column that came out a year ago on pbs.org. It’s not about net-neutrality per se, but it is interestingly related. It argues [...]

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Introducing Philosophy Journal Mashups! Any philosophy journal with an RSS feed can be run through a mashup program. Mashups combine multiple RSS feeds and automatically screen those feeds for specific content. Once you’ve screened the journal articles for the kind of content you want, you can turn the results into a widget to post on [...]

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I just arrived in Madison for the Wisconsin Epistemology Conference. It’s going to be awesome. The line-up of speakers is great. Kudos to Juan Comesaña for organizing this. I’ve got some ideas that occurred to me on the plane. I’ll post them in a bit, but right now I’m going to go find breakfast. Stay [...]

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Here’s one standard way to formulate the skeptical paradox. I know that I have hands. I don’t know I’m not a brain-in-a-vat. If I don’t know that I’m not a brain-in-a-vat, then I don’t know that I have hands. These three sentences cannot all be true, and yet each one seems plausible. Here are the [...]

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Joshua Thurow is here for our second set of lectures in the Young Philosophers Lecture Series. He gave a great talk yesterday developing and defending BonJour’s Generality Argument for the conclusion that we have some a priori knowledge. Today he is giving an introductory level talk titled “Is Morality Real, or Do We Make it [...]

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I’m hoping readers will oblige me with a little intuition check. Consider the following scenario. Cross-Check Your Perception with Another Person’s PerceptionYou seem to see a tiger. You’re very surprised to see a tiger. They don’t live around these parts. You ask a friend. Do you seem to see a tiger. Your friend says, “Yes. [...]

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I’m curious how many people out there discuss the Analysis of Knowledge literature when they teach Epistemology in their general Introduction to Philosophy courses. I suspect there are a lot of people who don’t. I thought it would be worth saying why I like to include Gettier discussions when I start epistemology in my introduction [...]

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About a month ago, I posted about an article that presents some interesting experiments involving perception. You don’t have to click that link…here’s the relevant bit. It turns out that there are many cases in which what people expect to see tricks them into thinking they saw it. For example, they had people watch someone [...]

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