Andrew Cullison

It seems unfitting not to show a little love to Socrates with an Ubuntu Wallpaper. I had a more grand vision with this one. Right now it’s a little plain. I may come back to this one and fix it up, but some may like it just like this - so consider this version one. [...]

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I finished this wallpaper the day before Simon was born. I tried to get Peter Van Inwagen’s picture to be a bit pointy/dotty to represent the simples. Screen Shot Download Wallpaper [Click Here] Sometimes you don’t always want to have a face on your desktop. I’ve got some ideas for some philosophy wallpapers without faces. [...]

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I liked the Chisholm-One and Chisholm-Two wallpapers, but I’m still on my Ubuntu Philosopher Wallpaper kick. Here’s a David Lewis Ubuntu Wallpaper. Download Wallpaper [Click Here] Goldman Wallpaper (via Matthew Mullins) Matthew Mullins has a Goldman Wallpaper here. He also suggests that dearth of philosophy wallpapers need not be filled by restricting ourselves to  heroes. [...]

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Here’s another Chisholm/Ubuntu Wallpaper. It’s a bit more subtle than my first Chisholm wallpaper and fits the more traditional Ubuntu color scheme. Nevertheless, Chisholm is still being appeared to ubuntu-ly. Screenshot Download Wallpaper [Click Here] I’ve got some sweet David Lewis/Ubuntu wallpaper ideas. Next time I play around on GIMP you’ll be able to rock [...]

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Philosophers should have desktop wallpapers that represent their philosophical heroes, right? To make a long story short, I needed an excuse to play around with GIMP (the Linux open-source alternative to Photoshop). Making philosophy hero desktop wallpapers seemed like the perfect excuse. The result is one of the the nerdiest things I’ve ever done. I [...]

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Update: I finished it. I was just asked to referee a journal submission for the first time. If I don’t post that I finished within the next two weeks - yell at me.

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Introducing Philosophy Journal Mashups! Any philosophy journal with an RSS feed can be run through a mashup program. Mashups combine multiple RSS feeds and automatically screen those feeds for specific content. Once you’ve screened the journal articles for the kind of content you want, you can turn the results into a widget to post on [...]

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Informal Logic just switched over to open access. Consequently.org has a post about it here. [HT: Mark and Andrei]I knew it had to be possible for a closed access journal to migrate over to an online open access format, and I even suggested that this would be a way for the discipline to get more [...]

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Here is a tale of journal woe with a happy ending. Now I’m going to reveal the ending. After fifteen years with no luck they sent their paper on the Two-Envelope Problem to an open-access online journal SORITES, and it got published. Don’t be fooled by the eye-irritating 1995 HTML version of the website. SORITES’ [...]

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Couldn’t a widely read Open Access Journal pay its referees for timely reports with advertising revenues? (Yes, I’m back to thinking about this issue again.) Imagine you’re an editor and you manage to get your open access journal into the top tier. Suppose you get 500 submissions a year that you deem are worth having [...]

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