About. I'm the Tata Chancellor Professor of Philosophy and a Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. Other positions include: President, Philosophy of Science Association; Faculty, The John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia; the Tata Institute of Genetics & Society Executive Board; Director of SPLASH Philosophy​​; organizer,  Disinformation Summer Institute. 

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I've worked at the London School of Economics (1996-2000) and was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Time, University of Sydney (2015), and SOCRATES, Leibniz University Hannover (2024).​ From 2019-22 I sat on the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the ISC and from 2020-24 on UCSD's Committee on Campus Climate Change.

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My main area of research and teaching is philosophy of science, ranging from the nature of time to various applied social and ethical issues. I obtained my Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997 with a dissertation on quantum mechanics and the direction of time. Here is my CV. 

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My book What Makes Time Special? (OUP 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award and the 2022 Suppes Prize. Some reviews: Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Review, Metascience, BJPS, NDPR. I've won the Chancellor's Associates Excellence Award twice, the 2018-19 Award in Research and the 2007-8 Award in Graduate Teaching.  

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I love the ocean. I race paddle boards, both standup and prone, and soon OC-1. If unfamiliar with prone paddling, the LA Times has a great article. Here are some water-themed pics I take. I also upload observations on iNaturalist.

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