About
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project New Agendas for the Study of Time:
Connecting the Disciplines at the University of Sydney's Centre for Time, my role in which is to study the philosophy and physics of the arrow of time. I achieved
my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol under the supervision of James Ladyman. Later in 2014, I'll be joining the project The Causal Power of Information in a Quantum World at the University of Queensland.
I work on conceptual issues concerning time, causation and explanation, particularly what it means for time to 'have a direction' and what this has to do with various time symmetries and asymmetries in philosophy and physics. I have some unusual views on the distinction between past, present and future (including a stubborn belief that the past is as 'open' as the future), and an interest in novel perspectives on standard philosophical problems offered by foundational work in quantum information theory. In a nearby possible world I make my living as a drummer.
I work on conceptual issues concerning time, causation and explanation, particularly what it means for time to 'have a direction' and what this has to do with various time symmetries and asymmetries in philosophy and physics. I have some unusual views on the distinction between past, present and future (including a stubborn belief that the past is as 'open' as the future), and an interest in novel perspectives on standard philosophical problems offered by foundational work in quantum information theory. In a nearby possible world I make my living as a drummer.
Centre for Time
Activities
I am currently organising the Sydney Foundations of Physics
seminar series and have organised/co-organised the following conferences:
Free Will and Retrocausality in a Quantum World (with Huw Price); Time
Symmetry: A Unified Approach (with Sam Baron);
The Present State of Presentism;
Conventional Principles in Science (with Milena Ivanova).
Teaching
Online Publications
Research Articles
- 2013. A Relic of a Bygone Age? Causation, Time Symmetry and the Directionality Argument (with Alexander Reutlinger). Erkenntnis.
- 2012. On A- and B-Theoretic Elements of Branching Spacetimes. Synthese.
Further Publications
- 2011. Report on Conventional Principles in Science (with Milena Ivanova). The Reasoner.
Works in Progress
- On the Possibility of Ontological Models of Quantum Mechanics (with David Miller).
- Causation and Time Reversal.
- 'Initial' Conditions and the Direction of Time.
- Supertemporal Ontology and the 'Triviality' Problem.
- The C Theory of Time.
PhD Thesis
Talks
- Causation and Time Reversal.
- 'Initial' Conditions and the Direction of Time.
- Time: Inside and Out.
- Supertemporal Ontology and the 'Triviality' Problem.
- Explaining Time and Time Explaining.
- Does time have a direction?
- Difference-Making and the Direction of Time. (With Alexander Reutlinger.)
- Non-Reductive Naturalism about Time Direction?
- On Some Problems with A- and B-Theoretic Models of Branching Spacetime.
- Towards a C Theory of Time.
