Andrew Cullison

I just received a really sad email. William Alston passed away earlier today. I didn’t know Alston very well, but I’m still a bit shook up. This is the first time a philosophical hero of mine has passed away at a time when I’ve been active long enough in philosophy to fully appreciate their excellence. [...]

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There’s been a lot of discussion around the philosophy blogs since Leiter brought everyone’s attention to this illuminating read by Lou Marinoff. I finally got around to reading the Marinoff piece today today. One issue that some have seized on is that Marinoff confesses to taking academic pedigree into account.

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I was checking out Ethics Etc today, and I notice a poll they have up. Here’s the question. In deciding whether to recommend acceptance or rejection of a paper for a journal, should one base one’s decision in part on the reputation, editorial policies, etc. of the journal? As of today 187 people have voted. [...]

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More and more philosophers are calling for open access philosophy journals, but just like academics can move away from proprietary publishers when it comes to journal articles, I think they can do the same thing when it comes to entire books.

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Google Forms are turning out to be an awesome for academics. I use it for the Philosophy Journal Surveys. Last week, I showed how you can use Google forms to have your students create a gradebook spreadsheet for you. This got me thinking about other cool ways to use Google Forms. In this post, I [...]

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I have a course blog. Students are required to post 2 substantive analysis posts on the reading for the semester. I stagger these deadlines so that every week there are a few analysis posts each week. These posts should be about 250-500 words in length. I also have a weekly 200 requirement. All students must [...]

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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’ve been playing around with ways to allow philosophers to collectively generate some table of additional useful information about the journal for the journal surveys page, and I think I’ve found a really great way to do it. I can embed the following kind of table at the top of each journal page. If you [...]

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If you’re using a spreadsheet application to record and calculate grades, then each year you have to get your list of students into the spreadsheet. You either do this manually, or you copy and paste the names from some list of your students online. But sometimes you might want a little more information next to [...]

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One thing I have absolutely no patience for is expandable advertisements. These are those banners that expand when the cursor runs across them. When I first signed up with the banner adnetwork, I set my permissions so that those were prohibited from this site. But looking at my site over the past few days, I’ve [...]

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