Cailin O'Connor

Philosopher of science at UC Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science), working on social epistemology, evolutionary game theory and the spread of false beliefs. Co-author, with James Owen Weatherall, of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale University Press, 2019).

Sources in this wiki

• The Misinformation Age — talk on social factors in belief formation and misinformation spread

Topics

• belief-formation
• social-learning
• corporate-influence
• journalism
• conformity-bias