John Waterman, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor
Location
John Waterman is an Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy. He teaches courses on bioethics, the intellectual history of ideas, and on the experimental philosophy of mind. A native New Englander, he recently moved back to Maine with his wife Barbara, and their three children Ida, Hazel, and Noel. He received an M.Sc. in the philosophy of science from The London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University.
Credentials
Education
Post-Doctoral Training
The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
Research
Selected publications
鈥淣avigating Skepticism: Cognitive Insights and Bayesian Rationality in Pinillos鈥 Why We Doubt鈥, with Chad Gonnerman (2024) in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
鈥淓xpert Testimony & Practical Interests鈥 with Nicholas Tebben (2022) in Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2041480
鈥淪alient Alternatives in Perspective鈥 with Mikkel Gerken, Joshua Alexander, and Chad Gonnerman, (2020) in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98:4, 792-810.
鈥淚nfallibilism, Skepticism, & Cultural Differences鈥 with Karen Yan, Joshua Alexander, and Chad Gonnerman in Stephen Stich, Jason Stanley, & Masaharu Mizumoto (eds.), Epistemology for the Rest of the World (2018). New York: Oxford University Press.
鈥淔raming How We Think about Disagreement鈥 with Joshua Alexander, Chad Gonnerman, and Diana Betz (2018) in Philosophical Studies 175: 2539.
鈥淐ounterfeit Testimony: Lies, Trust, and the Exchange of Information鈥 with Nick Tebben (2016) in Philosophical Studies 173: 3101.
鈥淭he Market for Testimony: A Reply to Our Critics鈥 with Nick Tebben, in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 5 (2015): 43-51.
鈥淓pistemic Free-Riders and Reasons to Trust Testimony鈥 with Nick Tebben in Social Epistemology 29, no. 3 (2015): 270 - 279.
鈥淪alience and Epistemic Egocentrism鈥 with Joshua Alexander & Chad Gonnerman in James Beebe (ed.), New Directions in Experimental Epistemology (2014). London: Bloomsbury Press.