No article found for “File:Waage.Filter.jpg”.

James Owen Weatherall

☆ Save On Wikipedia ↗

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. In 2026, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]

He is married to philosopher Cailin O'Connor.[3]

Books

  • The Physics of Wall Street (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)[4]
  • Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (Yale University Press, 2016)[5][6]
  • The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread with Cailin O'Connor (Yale University Press, 2019)[7]
  • The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory with Chris Smeenk (Oxford University Press, upcoming)

References

  1. "James Owen Weatherall".
  2. "New Academy Members 2026".
  3. "Cailin O'Connor, James Weatherall". The New York Times. 8 August 2009. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  4. Norris, Floyd (4 January 2013). "Solving for $". The New York Times.
  5. 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.
  6. Poole, Steven (11 March 2017). "'Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing', by James Owen Weatherall - review". The Spectator. ProQuest 1875327480.
  7. "THE MISINFORMATION AGE | Kirkus Reviews".