Andrew Cullison

In the last few hours, I’ve stumbled on quite a few cool bits of philosophy… 1. Mike Almeida has a pretty interesting post on Multiverse responses to a variety of versions of the Problem of Evil here. 2. Carrie Jenkins just suggested that we might be able to handle Kripkenstein Undetermination Worries in a (roughly) [...]

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This is a pretty interesting article that was just posted on Slashdot. It summarizes some pretty cool findings that should be of interest to philosophers interested in issues related to epistemology and perception. It turns out that there are many cases in which what people expect to see tricks them into thinking they saw it. [...]

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This starts off as what purports to be a discussion of the misuse of the expression “begging the question”… Half way through the article, it stops being serious and gets pretty funny. But it’s worth noting that before the article goes humorous, the author gives an example of a valid modus tollens as begging the [...]

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One possible skeptical scenario is Russell’s 5 minute hypothesis. This is from The Analysis of Mind… In investigating memory-beliefs, there are certain points which must be borne in mind. In the first place, everything constituting a memory-belief is happening now, not in that past time to which the belief is said to refer. It is [...]

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UPDATE: I posted this same thing over at Prosblogion - there’s been some discussion there. We don’t have a complete science of the brain yet, but look at what recent neuro-science has shown. Don’t the recent successes of neuro-science give us good reason to believe that there will one day be adequate evidence for the [...]

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