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. 2009-08-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  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
  6. ^ Poole, Steven (11 March 2017). "'Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing', by James Owen Weatherall - review". The Spectator
  7. ^ "THE MISINFORMATION AGE | Kirkus Reviews"