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Philosophy Faculty Members

John Turri
Assistant Professor

PhD, Brown University
MA, Brown University
BA, Wayne State University

Office:  HH 333
Extension:  32639
Email: jturri@uwaterloo.ca
Web page: http://john.turri.org/

*** NOTE (October 2011): I have funding to support two graduate students to work with me on SSHRC-funded projects: one on the norms of assertion and related issues in epistemology, the philosophy of language and value theory; the other an experimental philosophical approach to issues in speech act theory. Interested parties should apply to the philosophy graduate program at the University of Waterloo. Your application should make clear which project you’re interested in, and any qualifications that make you an especially good candidate to work on the project. – JT ***

Areas of Interest
Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ethics

Selected Publications

Books

  • Forthcoming: Epistemology: A Guide (Wiley-Blackwell)
  • Forthcoming: Metaepistemology (Polity)
  • Forthcoming: Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, 2nd ed., co-edited with Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (Wiley-Blackwell)
  • Forthcoming: Epistemic Norms: New Essays on Action, Belief and Assertion, co-edited with Clayton Littlejohn (Oxford University Press)
  • Forthcoming: Virtue Epistemology: Contemporary Readings, co-edited with John Greco (MIT Press)
  • Forthcoming: Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, edited (Springer)
  • Forthcoming: Ad Infinitum: New Essays on Epistemological Infinitism, co-edited with Peter Klein (Oxford University Press)

Articles

  • Forthcoming: “Contingent A Priori Knowledge,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • Forthcoming: “Is Knowledge Justified True Belief?” Synthese
  • Forthcoming: “Pyrrhonian Skepticism Meets Speech-Act Theory,” International Journal for the Study of Skepticism
  • Forthcoming: “Reasons, Answers and Goals,” Journal of Moral Philosophy
  • 2011: “A New and Improved Argument for a Necessary Being,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89.2
  • 2011: “Believing for a Reason,” Erkenntnis 74.3
  • 2011: “Manifest Failure,” Philosophers’ Imprint 11.8
  • 2011: “The Express Knowledge Account of Assertion,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89.2
  • 2011: “Mythology of the Factive,” Logos & Episteme 2.1
  • 2010: “Does Perceiving Entail Knowing?” Theoria 76.3
  • 2010: “Prompting Challenges,” Analysis 70.3
  • 2010: “Foundationalism for Modest Infinitists,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40.2
  • 2010: “On the Relationship Between Propositional and Doxastic Justification,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80.2
  • 2010: “Epistemic Invariantism and Speech Act Contextualism,” Philosophical Review 119.1
  • 2010: “Refutation by Elimination,” Analysis 70.1
  • 2009: “The Ontology of Epistemic Reasons,” Noûs 43.3

Selected Grants, Fellowships and Honors

  • 2011–2013: Principal investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Norms of Assertion"
  • 2011–2014: Principal investigator, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “New Perspectives on Speech Acts”
  • 2011–2012: Co-Applicant (with Benjamin Jarvis), British Academy/Association of Commonwealth Universities Grant for International Collaboration, “Constitutive Norms of Knowledge in Speech and Thought”
  • 2005: Mellon Graduate Workshop Grant
  • 2004: Mellon Graduate Workshop Grant
  • 2001–2005: Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, US Department of Education
  • 2001: Phi Beta Kappa

Current Research
In epistemology: the nature of knowledge, epistemic norms (of action, speech acts, and belief), epistemic value, the Gettier problem, virtue epistemology, skepticism, contextualism and invariantism, pragmatic encroachment, the a priori, reliabilism, infinitism, foundationalism, disjunctivism, externalism, epistemic reasons, intuitions, the epistemic basing relation, know-how

In the philosophies of language and mind: speech act theory, content externalism, perceptual content, propositional attitude ascriptions, liberal theories of reference, Thomas Reid’s philosophy of language, Moore’s Paradox

In metaphysics: the nature of powers and abilities, action

Graduate Supervision and Teaching

Graduate Theses:

  • Pragmatic Encroachment
  • Knowledge Norms
  • Assertion Within Reason
  • Conceptual Change

Courses, Seminars, and Areas:

  • Contemporary Epistemology
  • Externalism, Skepticism, and Epistemic Closure
  • Epistemic Normativity