Nature of time: Prof. Dean Rickles

Join an in-gallery talk with Professor Dean Rickles, co-founder of the Centre for Time – an interdisciplinary centre which investigates the nature of time, and the ways that we experience time.

This discussion on the nature and psychology of time will be presented in Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine.

Free with exhibition entry.

Professor Dean Rickles

Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, where he also serves as a Co-director of the university’s interdisciplinary Centre for Time. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, focusing on conceptual issues of quantum gravity. Rickles has many other academic interests outside of this, including the study of consciousness, AI, musicology, art, architecture and economics. His recent books include Covered in Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity, 1916-1956 (Oxford University Press, 2020); Life is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making it More Meaningful (Princeton University Press, 2022); Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning (co-authored with Harald Atmanspacher: Routledge, 2022); and Varieties of Nothingness (co-edited with Leslie Stein, Chiron 2024).

The Centre for Time brings together researchers from physics, philosophy, and psychology, to answer difficult questions about the nature of time and our relationship to it. It is supported by the Australian Research Council and the University of Sydney.