 My research concerns the role of time in physics and metaphysics. In particular, I am concerned with a variety of issues related to whether time has a preferred direction: what this would actually amount to; whether this is in any sense an empirical issue or, if not, whether one can reasonably infer one way or the other based on a consideration of current physics; whether such structure must be presupposed in order to make sense of what our physical theories tell us about the world; and how any of this ought to bear on the metaphysics of time literature. When not thinking about time, I also concern myself with foundational issues in the philosophy of physics, the relation between physics and metaphysics, and the scientific realism debate. When not thinking about philosophy, I watch (and talk quite a lot about) football and occasionally drum. |