Andrew Cullison

I’ve been watchinig the first season of the new Dr. Who. There’s an episode called “Aliens of London” that involves a pretty interesting Gettier case. Dr. Who Gettier Case Aliens are invading Earth. Part of the alien plot involves making people think there is an alien invasion in a way that is much different from [...]

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I coach an ethics bowl team. The Northeast Regional Cases are up, but people have been having problems with the site. I’m posting a link to the cases this year so that other people in the Northeast have another website to grab a copy of the cases. I also want a place for my own [...]

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Sarah called me yesterday and said, “There’s some philosopher on the Today Show, and Meredith is asking him about whether or not philosophy is relevant to people today. They’re also talking about all those trolley cases that you love to talk about.” I couldn’t find the video yesterday. But I found it today. Here it [...]

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I’m working on another paper on testimony, and I was drawn to this article on some of the empirical studies done on children and testimony. Something caught my eye that is completely unrelated to the topic of the paper. It’s another knowledge ascription. I like making note of knowledge ascriptions in wild. Here’s the one [...]

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I woke up this morning to discover that I’m a 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize 2009 Finalist. The contest started out with about 60 nominees, and now it’s down to 9 finalists. The finalists will be judged by Daniel Dennett. He’ll pick three winners and write up little comments about each of his choices. Thanks [...]

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I just got the word from Goldman. My paper “On the Nature of Testimony” has been accepted for publication at Episteme! I need to make some minor stylistic changes and correct a few typos. As soon as I do that, I’ll post the penultimate version here. For now, I’ll post the abstract. On the Nature [...]

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This story showed up on Tech Crunch about a week ago. I’m just now getting around to reading it. It’s about two Belgian college students who were caught cheating on exams. It looks like there was already some evidence against them, but it was their Facebook conversations (presumably public wall postings) that finally convinced the [...]

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I like Ways-Millianism. It’s a combo-theory about meaning and the metaphysics of belief. Here are two of the core theses. (M) The meaning of a proper name is its referent. (W) Belief is a mediated relation between a person and a proposition. People believe propositions in virtue of standing in relation to some third thing [...]

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I just posted Helen’s introductory level talk “Saving the Greatest Number” over at the Young Philosophers site.

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Earlier this morning, I posted Kevin Timpe’s introductory level talk - Exploring the Problem of Evil at Tinker Creek - over at the Young Philosophers podcast site. Check it out. More videos will be coming soon.

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