Dr Matt Farr

Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Centre for Time

Room N494, Main Quadrangle
+612 9114 0633
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Matt Farr achieved his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK, under the supervision of James Ladyman. Matt's primary research interests concern the role of the concept of time direction in physics and metaphysics, in particular relating to causation and scientific explanation. His broader research interests include the relationship between physics and metaphysics.

Publications

• Farr, M. & Reutlinger, A. (Forthcoming), "A Relic of a Bygone Age? Causation, Time Symmetry and the Directionality Argument," Erkenntnis.
  Preprint (free to access)
• Farr, M. (2012), “On A- and B-Theoretic Elements of Branching Spacetimes,Synthese, vol. 188, pp.85–116.
  Available online
  Preprint (free to access)
• Farr, M. (forthcoming), “Review of Tim Maudlin’s Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2012,” Philosophy in Review.
• Ivanova, M. & Farr, M. (2011), “Conventional Principles in Science” (conference report), The Reasoner, Volume 5, Number 10.
  Available online