Everett Fulmer

My work increasingly divides into two areas. First, I research the nature of rationality and knowledge. What does it take to reason better? What obstacles to do we face when assessing the quality of our own thinking? In pursuing these questions, I am committed to the relevance of the history of epistemological and logic to our best contemporary research.

Second, and more recently, I am interested in biomedical ethics and diagnostic reasoning. I give critical thinking trainings at local hospitals. I teach medical ethics to established nurses through Loyola’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. And I am currently working on the moral priority of the injunction to avoid harm in medicine.

I did my doctoral work under John Greco on the philosophical significance, or lesson, to draw from the long-recalcitrance of perennial skeptical arguments.

Before professional philosophy, I worked in the wine industry in Virginia, taught ESL to business clients in Santiago Chile, and ran wine-tastings for English-speaking tourists in Santiago.