Cailin O'Connor

Cailin O'Connor is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is a philosopher of science and evolutionary game theorist whose research focuses on misinformation, epistemic dysfunction, scientific communities, and discriminatory conventions. She is best known for her books The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, co-authored with James Owen Weatherall, and The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution.