Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney and a co-director of The Centre for Time, Australia. He is editor of The Routledge Series on Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics. He is author of Life is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making it More Meaningful (2022) Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning (co-authored with Harald Atmanspacher, 2022), Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (2020), What is Philosophy of Science? (2020), Philosophy of Physics (2016), A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory (2014), Symmetry, Structure and Spacetime (2007), and editor of Quantum Gravity and Computation: Information, Pregeometry, and Digital Physics (forthcoming), Varieties of Nothingness (co-edited with Leslie Stein, 2023), Quantum Gravity in the First Half of the 20th Century: A Sourcebook (co-edited with Alex Blum, 2018), Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art (co-edited with O. Bueno, G. Darby, and S. French, 2017), Information and Interaction: Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge (co-edited with Ian Durham, 2016), Structural Realism: Structure, Object, and Causality (co-edited with Elaine Landry, 2012), The Role of Gravitation in Physics (co-edited with Cécile DeWitt, 2011), Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics (2008), and The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity (co-edited with Steven French and Juha Saatsi, 2006).