Andrew Cullison

I  got a Google Wave invite last week. Now that I’ve played around with it for a bit, I’m sold. This thing is awesome. In this post, I’ll say a bit about what google wave is, and then I’ll briefly note a host of great things that philosophers (and other academics) will be able to [...]

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A lot of philosophers might want server space, but don’t want to shell out the money. I’m talking about real server space where you can do anything you want without the sorts of restrictions and bandwidth limitations that universities might place on the free stuff they give you. There’s a lot of cool things you [...]

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So far, I’ve posted some preliminary comparative data on some of the top general philosophy journals. We’ve seen comparisons based on average review times and comparisons based on percentages of submissions that received comments. Now let’s look at the likelihood that a journal will give you a second chance. I’ve taken the same general journals [...]

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Th journal surveys have been up for a couple of months. Now let’s start playing around with the results and have a little fun. I’m picking a list of some of the top, general journals to compare reported review times. Below I’ve listed the average review time and the mode (both in months). I’ve also [...]

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Suppose you’ve been asked to referee a paper for a prestigious journal. When looking over the paper you come to realize that you’ve refereed this paper for the another prestigious journal. You have a few options. They all seem bad to me. Option One: Decline to Referee the Paper (Give no reason) This seems bad. [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: ethics, teaching by Andrew Cullison
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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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This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited about this. I use Drop.io to have students submit papers. I use Drop.io to help me share files with students, but still be within Fair Use Guidelines. Drop.io is, all around, an incredibly useful tool [...]

Filed under: android, educational technology, teaching, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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Blog platforms are so good and versatile that educators have all of the resources we need to run a course management website without the need for proprietary software. Blogs do just about everything a course management software system can do and more. There are also several other benefits to do something like this with a [...]

Filed under: educational technology, open source, teaching, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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I’m seeing a lot of conferences now that result in edited volumes. This might be an easy way to start a high quality open access publication. Suppose we set up some kind of society (e.g. The Society for Open Access Philosophy) to throw a yearly summer philosophy conference. The process for getting into the conference [...]

Filed under: open access, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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