Philosophers on G+

UPDATE: Here’s a more visible link to the spreadsheet I’ve been playing around with Google+ for about a week, and I love it. Since it’s in beta, there isn’t yet a good list feature like on Twitter, and I know philosophers are trying to find other philosophers. So I thought I’d make it easier for [...]

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It’s a boy!

I am happy to announce that Charles David Cullison was born this morning at 4am - 7lb 12oz. I’ve attached a photo. Mama and baby are well. It was the “best labor ever” (those are Sarah’s words, not mine).

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Just Accepted to Summer Seminar!

My application to attend the Purdue Summer Seminar on moral and religious epistemology was just accepted! It’s a summer seminar directed by Michael Bergmann and sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. The email says they selected 14 other applicants. Sitting around for two weeks talking about moral and religious epistemology with 15 philosophers this summer is going [...]

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Attendance App (New Video Demo)

I thought it would be a good idea to put together a short demo video of the free Attendance app we have on the Android market, so you can see how the integration with Google Docs works. Here it is.

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Simplifying the Blog

Hope everyone is having a good break. Since it’s Winter Break, I’m playing around with changing the look of the site. I tend to favor dead-simple themes and layouts. My previous theme, despite its simplicity, wasn’t simple enough for me. So I’m playing around with this one. Here’s a summary of of some other changes. [...]

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5 Uses of Chrome to Phone for Academics

I’ve been playing around with Google Chrome’s extension called Chrome to Phone, and I’m completely hooked. The concept is simple enough. You’re on your desktop and you find some information that would be useful to bring up on your phone in the near future (e.g. you’re about to leave your office to go to class). [...]

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Journal Survey Update

We’re coming up on our fall break, and my plan is to update the journal surveys. I’ll be adding new journals to the mix. I’m also going to try and implement the best way to do interesting comparisons as some of you have requested. If you have any other feature requests/suggestions, now is a good [...]

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Grade Rubric - Demo Version

We (Android for Academics) just released a free, demo version of Grade Rubric - just in time for the grading crunch! Read more here.

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More on Posting to Wordpress from Google Docs

A few weeks ago, I discovered that you can post to Wordpress from Google Docs. But if you follow those instructions, titles won’t import into Wordpress. However, I just found However, if you follow this set of instructions - titles from Google Docs will import into Wordpress. Now I have a useful tool on my [...]

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Weatherson on Gettier

Aren’t there analyses of knowledge that do less violence to our intuitions than JTB, but also have about as good a claim to analyze knowledge in terms of a natural property as JTB (e.g. JTB that isn’t based on false grounds)? If that’s right, then it seems that Weatherson’s defense of JTB in “What Good [...]

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