Areas of Specialization 
Pragmatism, Expressivism, Philosophy of time, Foundations of quantum theory

Areas of Competence   
Philosophy of science, Ethics and Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Academic Career

• since 2022 Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Bonn
• 2016–2021 Academic Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
• since 2020 Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge
• since 2020 Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
• since 2019 Board Member, Ada Lovelace Institute
• 2011–2020 Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge
• 2011–2020 Professorial Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
• 2012–2018 Founding Academic Director, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
• 2007–2012 Second ARC Federation Fellowship, University of Sydney
• 2003–2012 Challis Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
• 2002–2012 Director, Centre for Time, University of Sydney
• 2002–2007 ARC Federation Fellowship, University of Sydney
• 2001–2003 Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh
• 1997–2001 Professor of Natural Metaphysics (Personal Chair), University of Sydney
• 1989–1997 Lecturer (1989–90), Senior Lecturer (1991–94), Reader (1995–97), University of Sydney
• 1988–1989 Research Fellow in Philosophy, RSSS, ANU
• 1985–1987 ARC National Research Fellow in Philosophy, UNSW
• 1981–1983 Rothmans Postdoctoral Fellow, ANU