Brian Weatherson

Brian Weatherson is the Marshall Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of language.[1]

Education and career

Born in Australia, Weatherson received his PhD from Monash University in 1998, with a dissertation on formal models for reasoning under uncertainty, titled "On Uncertainty."

Prior to joining the Michigan department in 2012, he was an Associate Professor at Cornell University (2008-2011) and Rutgers University (2011-2012), and also taught at Brown University (2004-2007) and Syracuse University (1999-2001).

He runs a philosophy-themed blog, "Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants" and is a contributing member of the political blog Crooked Timber.

gollark: When a dragon flaps its wings in Galsreim, a hurricane occurs, five years later, on Earth.
gollark: An alien manipulating the population of Earth... by changing button colours and mildly infuriating people.
gollark: What if TJ09 has been abducted by aliens?
gollark: Indeed.
gollark: Anyway, the commenter said:* sickness is a mechanic to make you pay attention* I should just wait for tj09 to magically fix viewbombing

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