James Owen Weatherall is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.  He is the author, with Cailin O’Connor, of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale, 2019), which was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Recommended Reading by Scientific American.  His previous books were Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (Yale, 2016) and the New York Times bestseller The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).  

He has published approximately 50 peer-reviewed research articles in journals in leading physics and philosophy of science journals and has delivered over 100 invited academic talks and public lectures