C. Kenneth Waters

C. Kenneth Waters holds the Canada Research Chair in Logic and the Philosophy of Science and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, where he specializes in philosophy of biology.

Waters received his undergraduate education from the University of Vermont and his M.A and PhD from Indiana University Bloomington in 1985. Waters has taught at the University of Calgary since 2014, and has held previous appointments at John Carroll University, Rice University, and the University of Minnesota. Waters was the Samuel Russell Chair of Humanities at the University of Minnesota and was Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science from 1996 - 2014.

Waters has been named an AAAS Fellow and served as president of the Philosophy of Science Association.

Waters' research centers on the epistemology of biological sciences. He has written on reductionism, pluralism, experimentation, conceptual and investigative practices, and causal reasoning. He is a prominent figure in the Philosophy of Biology literature. His most prominent and influential philosophical research is focused on a historically informed epistemological account of how scientists succeed, and why this is philosophically important.