James Owen Weatherall
American philosopher of physics at UC Irvine; The Misinformation Age.
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- James Owen Weatherall is an American physicist, mathematician and philosopher.
- He is Chancellor's Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, and has edited the journal Philosophy of Science from January 2023.
- He wrote The Misinformation Age with Cailin O'Connor, to whom he is married.
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- Books
- The Physics of Wall Street (2013); Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (2016); The Misinformation Age (2019, with Cailin O'Connor)1
- Edits
- Philosophy of Science, from January 2023 to 20261
- Honours
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2026)1
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