Andrew Cullison

I had three hits today on my website from somebody googling “What Plargiarism is OK?” - Here is your answer…none.

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I’ve ranted a lot about how awesome I think Ubuntu is. It’s a super, user-friendly Linux alternative to Mac and Windows. One of the benefits that I like to emphasize when I try to persuade someone that they should consider Linux has to do with social justice. There is good reason to believe that Linux [...]

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[UPDATE: Here's the new version of the paper] “Moral Perception” has just been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Philosophy. As Clayton once so eloquently put it - Huzzah! I have to make some stylistic changes. When I do that I’ll post a draft of the paper. For now, I’ll give you a [...]

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Nick Treanor was here last week for our Young Philosophers Lecture Series. I’ll be posting those talks over at Young Philosophers sometime within the next week. In his introductory level talk, he presented a view about emotions, according to which emotions could be rational or irrational. That talk was the inspiration for this argument. Warm-Up [...]

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I don’t do much with business ethics, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that there is something wrong with Colgate. I snapped these two pictures at the grocery store over a month ago because I thought it was kind of funny. Compare them. Single Purchase Value Pack Purchase Did [...]

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A senior DHS official is seriously interested in EMD Bracelets for all airline passengers. The basic idea is to replace boarding passes with bracelets that would connect passengers with their luggage, serve as passenger identification, enable tracking throughout the airport…oh and they have the abililty to taser you if you get out of line. That’s [...]

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Lying is prima facie morally wrong. But most people are willing to acknowledge that it is sometimes OK to lie. Cognitive Daily has an interesting post concerning a study designed to assess when teenagers think it’s OK to lie. You might be amazed at what teenagers regard as permissible defeating circumstances. Here is the link [...]

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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 off to Chicago today for the Central APA. Assuming I have access to the internet, I’ll post about some of the philosophy going on there. I’m commenting on a paper by Matthew Pianalto called “Moral Realism and Ways of Life.” He discusses an issue that Walter Sinnott-Armstrong raises for moral realism that’s fun to [...]

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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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