Andrew Cullison

There are a few things I don’t quite understand about the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). I think most of them boil down to my own confusion about when it’s true of a person that they intend to bring about some effect. In this post, I simply want to present a case. I’m not sure [...]

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Helen Frowe is giving two talks this week as part of our Young Philosophers Podcast Lecture Series.Her first talk is tonight. Her second talk is tomorrow. Here’s the flyer. And here are a few more details.

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I’ve been asked to present at a campus Earth Week event on open source software, the environment, and social justice. As with the “9 Cool Web Apps Post“, I’ll be using this post as a kind of handout that people at the talk can go back to. I hope off-campus readers will get something out [...]

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My paper “Three Millian Ways to Resolve Open Questions” was just published today! Here’s the link to the online version. Because the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy is an open access journal that link takes you to the official, final copy of the article, and I am allowed to link to it. Pretty amazing.

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Consider two trolley cases. In the first case, you can save your life, by flipping a switch. However, the blast will blow the train off the track and kill an innocent bystander who is standing by the side of the train tracks. Call this person Sam. The other trolley case just moves the location of [...]

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I’m leading a discussion today at a local high school. There is a BIG READ program that our library has a grant for, and I was asked by the director if I would be willing to lead a discussion on some ethical issue(s) that come up in To Kill a Mockingbird at some local high [...]

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I finally finished making some stylistic changes to “Moral Perception”. It’s forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy. I posted this recent version of it on my Research Page, but you can also click here.

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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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I’m working on a revise and resubmit, and there’s an interesting issue that I’m going to have to deal with. So let me begin with a question. Is it possible to forgive someone for an action, but fail to believe that the action was wrong? I’m inclined to say yes. Here’s three potential motivations. Moral [...]

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Here’s a good discussion about how eVoting should be done. Of particular interest, is the case made for using an open source software for the electronic voting machines. With closed-source, proprietary software a company has the perfect cover to pull some cloak-and-dagger stuff (e.g., insert a backdoor program that allows for the creator to manually [...]

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