Andrew Cullison

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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Here are two quotes from the first few pages in the new reader Experimental Philosophy edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols. Of course, the most salient difference is just the fact that experimental philosophers conduct experiments and conceptual analysts do not. Thus, the conceptual analyst might write, “In this case, one would surely say…,” [...]

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I’ve been writing a lot about safety accounts of knowledge recently (here and here). It’s time for more. My concern is that DuncanPritchard’s Safety Account of Knowledge doesn’t easily avoid Kripke’s Fake Barn Country counterexample to Nozick’s Sensitivity Principle. Pritchard is aware that Jonathan Kvanvig has already raised this worry, but Pritchard’s response to Kvanvig [...]

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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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Last week, I laid out some problems for the naive safety account of knowledge that Pritchard presents early in his book Epistemic Luck. I wanted to get them out so that we could make sure that, whatever revisions Pritchard made to the safety account, we had a safety view that also avoided those worries. Pritchard’s [...]

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In the epistemology class I’m teaching, we’ve moved on from Bergmann’s book to Pritchard’s book Epistemic Luck. Here’s a principle that Pritchard ultimately is going to defend. Safety Principle If S knows P, then S believes P in most nearby worlds where P is true This is not to be confused with the Nozickean/Dretskean tracking/sensitivity [...]

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

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Here’s the abstract of one of NPR’s Morning Edition stories this morning. Morning Edition, October 16, 2008 · A Nebraska state senator last year filed a lawsuit against God. Ernie Chambers sought an injunction against God because of widespread death and destruction. Judge Marlon Polk has thrown out the lawsuit. He says there’s no way [...]

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