Cailin O'Connor

I’m a philosopher of biology and behavioral sciences, philosopher of science, and evolutionary game theorist. I am Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at UC Irvine. I am currently administering the NSF grant Social Dynamics and Diversity in Epistemic Communities. My trade book The Misinformation Age, co-authored with philosopher of physics James Owen Weatherall was just published with Yale University Press. My monograph ‘The Origins of Unfairness’ will be published next spring or summer with OUP, and is available in draft form. One more book – a survey of game theory in philosophy of biology – is in full draft form, and available upon request. It is for the CUP elements series. I am also a sometime science writer.

When not busy doing philosophy, I am a poultry enthusiast and aerial acrobat.

My Erdos-Bacon number is 7.