John Waterman
Location
John Waterman teaches Philosophy. His courses include bioethics, the history of ideas, and experimental philosophy. A native New Englander, he has made Maine home with his wife Barbara, and their three children Ida, Hazel, and Noel.
Credentials
Education
Post-Doctoral Training
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.