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title: "James Owen Weatherall"
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canonical_name: "James Owen Weatherall"
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first_seen: "2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z"
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connects_to: ["minimal coupling","natural equation","symmetric hyperbolic systems","general covariance","Robert Geroch"]
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Chancellor's Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (and Mathematics) at UC Irvine — a philosopher of physics working on the mathematical foundations of general relativity, and the author of two popular-science books, *The Physics of Wall Street* and *Void*.

Matters to this vault as the common author across a documented, ongoing research program on general covariance, minimal coupling, and determinism: this paper (with Eleanor March, 2026), "The local validity of special relativity, part 1: Geometry" (with Samuel C. Fletcher, 2023), "A puzzle about general covariance and gauge" (with March, 2024), "Natural theories" (with March, 2025, forthcoming), and "Deterministic theories" (with Hans Halvorson and John Byron Manchak, 2026) — standing that holds independent of co-authoring any one of these papers alone.

## References
- [[claim-march-weatherall-minimal-coupling-unique-up-to-isomorphism]]
- [[claim-march-weatherall-causal-cones-coincide-with-metric-lightcones]]
- [[claim-march-weatherall-natural-maximal-hyperbolizations-satisfy-dominant-energy-condition]]
- [[claim-march-weatherall-hyperbolization-tensor-divergence-free-by-naturality]]