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Huw Price

Disciplines:
philosophy of time
philosophy of science/philosophy of physics
ethics/metaethics

Summary

Australian philosopher who has argued for a perspectivalist account of time's arrow, advocated retrocausality in quantum mechanics, and developed a pragmatist metaethics.

Core Contribution

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: argues that the arrow of time reflects a perspectival feature of our position in time, not a fundamental asymmetry in physics. Retrocausality: quantum mechanics might involve backward causation, explaining correlations without non-locality. Expressivism without problems: a minimal version of pragmatism about normativity.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • The Archimedean point metaphor: to see time asymmetry as fundamental, you would need a view from outside time — but we are always inside time, so our sense of its direction reflects our temporal perspective.
  • Retrocausality in quantum mechanics: if we allow causes to work backward in time, Bell's theorem correlations can be explained without non-locality — a minority view but technically coherent.

Notable Works & Achievements

Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point

Naturalism Without Mirrors

Historical Influences

Bertrand Russell Ernst Mach

Intellectual Lineage

Australian Analytic Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

Craig Callender Tim Maudlin

Minds Influenced

Philosophy of Time Research

Intellectual Posterity

Time's ArrowRetrocausality

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