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Nathan Dowell

Nathan sitting by a tree

Nathan Dowell

Senior Lecturer

dowell.105@osu.edu

614-292-3663

337E University Hall

Education

  • B.A. Clear Creek College
  • M.A. Philosophy, Liberty University
  • M.A. Philosophy of Religion, Yale Divinity School

How to pronounce my name:  

Nathan Dowell

 

My research primarily focuses on epistemology with an emphasis on the nature of a priori justification, presentational phenomenology and intuition. For this, I am most interested in arguments for and against the infallibility of intuitive justification. Aside from that, I also enjoy thinking about issues surrounding the philosophy of religion, epistemic contextualism, the nature of belief and knowledge, formal epistemology and the epistemologies and metaphysics of early modern philosophers (especially Descartes, Reid, Leibniz and Kant). 

When I am not doing philosophy, I like to spend time reading books of poetry, fiction, psychology, history and productivity.