James Owen Weatherall

James Owen Weatherall is an American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher.

He is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. ^[1] Since January 2023, he has been editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Science (journal), the official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association.

He is married to philosopher Cailin O'Connor. ^[2]

Books

• The Physics of Wall Street (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) ^[3]
• Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (Yale University Press, 2016) ^{[4] [5]}
• The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread with Cailin O'Connor (Yale University Press, 2019) ^[6]
• The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory with Chris Smeenk (Oxford University Press, upcoming)

References

1. "James Owen Weatherall".
2. "Cailin O'Connor, James Weatherall". The New York Times. 8 August 2009. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 21 February 2024.
3. Norris, Floyd (4 January 2013). "Solving for $". The New York Times.
4. Pesic, Peter (22 December 2016). "The Physics of Nothing; The problem of the void goes back more than 2,000 years. In 'Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing,' James Owen Weatherall gives a wide-ranging account of this remarkable story". Wall Street Journal. ProQuest   1851221681.
5. Poole, Steven (11 March 2017). "'Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing', by James Owen Weatherall - review". The Spectator. ProQuest   1875327480.
6. "THE MISINFORMATION AGE | Kirkus Reviews".

External links

• Official website