Brian Weatherson

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Brian Weatherson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy.

Australian born, he received his PhD from Monash University in 1998, with a dissertation on formal models for reasoning under uncertainty, titled "On Uncertainty." He has held previous appointments at Syracuse and Brown.

His areas of expertise are Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, and Decision Theory.

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

Weatherson is a known fan of Admiral Ackbar, and often notes, "It's a Trap!"

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