Andrew Cullison

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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I think knowledge entails truth, but I like to keep an eye out for uses of ‘knows’ and its cognates that suggest otherwise. This one just poppped up on Digg today. First sentence of the article: “Contrary to what was known, all octopuses are venomous, a new study finds.”

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The word on Twitter that Ted Sider is now a mereological nihilist (See here and here). Evidently, he defended this view at the Pacific APA four days ago. I’ve already been regretting not going to the Pacific APA this year. All reports indicate that it was awesome, and this is just one more reason to [...]

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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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Continuum Press contacted me a few months ago and asked if I would edit a Companion to Epistemology. I accepted, but I didn’t blog about it because I still had to go through their standard proposal process. Now I can blog about it.

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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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For those of you who subscribe to my blog, sorry about all of those test posts. I was trying to get a plugin called “Postmaster” to work, and I’m still having problems. Here’s a picture of Simon reading that should make up for the inconvenience. Evidently, Lecture II is delicious.

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You know why Lewis Powell is awesome? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle. You know why Lewis Powell is even awesomer? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle this much.

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