Brian Weatherson

Brian Weatherson is an Australian philosopher who is the Marshall Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the fields of epistemology and philosophy of language. Born in Australia, Weatherson earned his PhD from Monash University in 1998, with his dissertation focusing on formal models for reasoning under uncertainty, titled "On Uncertainty." Before joining the University of Michigan in 2012, he held academic positions at several universities. He was an associate professor at Cornell University from 2008 to 2011 and at Rutgers University from 2011 to 2012. Prior to that, he taught at Brown University from 2004 to 2007 and at Syracuse University from 1999 to 2001. Weatherson also maintains a philosophy-themed blog called "Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants" and is a contributing member of the political blog "Crooked Timber."