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
“Navigating Skepticism: Cognitive Insights and Bayesian Rationality in Pinillos’ Why We Doubt”, with Chad Gonnerman (2024) in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
“Expert Testimony & Practical Interests” with Nicholas Tebben (2022) in Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2041480
“Salient Alternatives in Perspective” with Mikkel Gerken, Joshua Alexander, and Chad Gonnerman, (2020) in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98:4, 792-810.
“Infallibilism, Skepticism, & Cultural Differences” 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.
“Framing How We Think about Disagreement” with Joshua Alexander, Chad Gonnerman, and Diana Betz (2018) in Philosophical Studies 175: 2539.
“Counterfeit Testimony: Lies, Trust, and the Exchange of Information” with Nick Tebben (2016) in Philosophical Studies 173: 3101.
“The Market for Testimony: A Reply to Our Critics” with Nick Tebben, in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 5 (2015): 43-51.
“Epistemic Free-Riders and Reasons to Trust Testimony” with Nick Tebben in Social Epistemology 29, no. 3 (2015): 270 - 279.
“Salience and Epistemic Egocentrism” with Joshua Alexander & Chad Gonnerman in James Beebe (ed.), New Directions in Experimental Epistemology (2014). London: Bloomsbury Press.