Brian Weatherson is the Marshall Weinberg

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of Philosophy at the

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. He specializes in

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and

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.http://brian.weatherson.org/cv.pdf

Education and career

Born in Australia, Weatherson received his PhD from

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

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 Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

(2008–2011) and

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(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

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Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants

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