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
edit- 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
edit- ^ "James Owen Weatherall".
- ^ "Cailin O'Connor, James Weatherall". The New York Times. 2009-08-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ Norris, Floyd (4 January 2013). "Solving for $". The New York Times.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Poole, Steven (11 March 2017). "'Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing', by James Owen Weatherall - review". The Spectator. ProQuest 1875327480.
- ^ "THE MISINFORMATION AGE | Kirkus Reviews".
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