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Dr. Everett Fulmer's work increasingly divides into two areas. First, he researches 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, he is committed to the relevance of the history of epistemological and logic to our best contemporary research.

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

Dr. Fulmer did his doctoral work under on the philosophical significance, or lesson, to draw from the long-recalcitrance of perennial skeptical arguments.

Before professional philosophy, he 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.

Recent Publications:

• “Against the New Cartesian Circle,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (1) 2017: 66-74 (with C.P. Ragland).
• “The Fourth Meditation and Cartesian Circles," Special Issue on Cartesian Epistemology, Philosophical Annals LXVII (2) 2020: 119-138 (with C.P. Ragland).
• “Love, Justice and Divine Simplicity,” in Love and Justice, edited by Ingolf Dalferth and Trevor Kimball. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion 101: 23-36. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.

Classes Taught:

• Skepticism in a World of Misinformation: Statistics and Big Data
• Introduction to Symbolic Logic
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Science
• Biomedical Ethics (honors level)
• Biomedical Ethics (graduate level, DNP program)

Areas of Expertise:

Epistemology, Logic, Biomedical Ethics