David Matheson

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:35 – 12:35 or email for appointment.

Vita

Professor Matheson completed his doctoral studies at Brown University in 2003.  His current research focuses on various topics at the intersection of epistemology and other branches of philosophy, such as privacy, testimony, dignity, externalist cognition, and the knowledge of persons.  Among Professor Matheson’s recent articles are “Externalism and Minimal Propositions” (with Professor Corazza, in progress), “Knowing Persons” (in progress), “A Distributive Reductionism about the Right to Privacy” (The Monist), “Dignity and Selective Self-presentation” (On the Identity Trail, Oxford University Press), “Unknowableness and Informational Privacy” (Journal of Philosophical Research), “Virtue and the Surveillance Society” (International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society), “Bounded Rationality and the Enlightenment Picture of Cognitive Virtue” (Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, Blackwell), “Conflicting Experts and Dialectical Performance” (Argumentation), “Faith Shunning Validation” (International Journal for Philosophy of Religion), and “Anonymity and Testimonial Warrant” (Principia).

Research Interests

• epistemology
• ethics
• philosophy of mind and language

2011-12 Courses

• Phil 3005:  19th Century Philosophy
• PHIL 5900:  Research Seminar