Dean is professor of history and philosophy of modern physics at the University of Sydney, where he also co-directs the Centre for Time. He has a wide range of research interests, including musicology, economics, psychology, theology, architecture, AI, and cybernetics.
Experience
2007–present
ARC Senior Australian Research Fellow, The University of Sydney
2014–present
Professor, The University of Sydney
2013–2018
Future Fellow, The University of Sydney
2005–2007
Postdoctoral fellow, Canadian Institute of Health Research
Education
2005
University of Leeds, PhD
Publications
2022
Life is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making it More Meaningful, Princeton University Press
2021
Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning, Routledge
2020
What is Philosophy of Science?, Polity Press
2020
Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity, Volume I, 1916-1956., Oxford University Press
2018
Quantum Gravity in the First Half of the 20th Century: A Sourcebook, Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
2017
Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art, Routledge
2016
Philosophy of Physics, Polity Press
2016
Information and Interaction: Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge, Springer
2014
A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory., Springer
2012
Structural Realism: Structure, Object, and Causality, Springer
2011
The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference (with Cecile DeWitt), Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Science,
2008
The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics, Ashgate,
2007
Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime, North Holland: Elsevier,
2006
The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity (Co-edited with Steven French and Juha Saatsi), Oxford: Clarendon Press,
Grants and Contracts
2021
The Development of Quantum Gravity: The Great Divide' (2021-2026)
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2021
Wandering Mazes Lost: Investigating Arguments over the Problem of Existence
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
John Templeton Foundation
2018
Radical Conservative: A Biography of John Archibald Wheeler
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Foundational Questions Institute
2014
Explorations in Quantum Gravity
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2012
New Agendas for the Study of Time: Con- necting the Disciplines