Philosopher of science (logic, mathematics, quantum mechanics). Modern drama and historical fiction enthusiast. Would-be half-marathoner. Spellbound father of three.

Below is a selection of my work in philosophy (and photography, d'oh!). Here is my academic genealogy and full CV. I am also on arXiv, orcid, philpapers, philsci, and scholar

Select publications:

Is Bohr’s Correspondence Principle just Hankel's Principle of Permanence? (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)

An Alleged Tension Between Non-Classical Logics and Applied Classical Mathematics (The Philosophical Quarterly; with S. Horvat)

Einstein Completeness as Categoricity (Foundations of Physics)

On the Categoricity of Quantum Mechanics (European Journal for Philosophy of Science)

Permanence as a Principle of Practice (Historia Mathematica)

Why Did Weyl Think that Emmy Noether Made Algebra the Eldorado of Axiomatics? (HOPOS)

"Above the Slough of Despond": Weylean Invariantism and Quantum Physics (Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics)

Objectivity and Understanding: A New Reading of Carnap's Aufbau (Synthese) 

Why did Weyl Think that Formalism’s Victory Against Intuitionism Entails a Defeat of Pure Phenomenology? (History and Philosophy of Logic)

Select talks:

Judging Properly: Against the Ramseyan view on Weyl’s Quantifiers, FPMW16, Nancy, 16-18.10.2024

Permanent Possessions of the Mind, Appropriations of Hume from Central Europe, Corvinus University, Budapest, 13-14.09.2024

Categoricity Transfer in Quantum Theory, HOPOS 2024, University of Vienna, 9-12.07.2024

Permanence of Forms as a Transfer Principle, From Permanence to Conservativity: Metatheoretical Ideals in Early Formalism, Vienna, 4-5.12.2023

Quantum-Theoretical Inferentialism, CIVIS Summer School on Meanings and understanding via proofs, University of Bucharest, 17-21.07.2023

What Carnap wanted us to learn from quantum mechanics, The Vienna Circle – History and Legacy, University of Vienna, 25-27.09.2023

A Categoricity Problem for Quantum Inferentialism, EPSA 2023, Belgrade, 20-23.09.2023

The Meaning of Reconstructed Quantum Mechanics, The Quantum Reconstruction Program and Beyond, University of Graz, 1-3.08.2023

Perspective-Sensitive Invariantism, Invariance and Objectivity, University of Vienna, 28-29.06.2023

Distribution can be Dropped, ASL Logic Colloquium, Milan, 5-9.06.2023; ECAP 11, Vienna, 21-25.08.2023

What Carnap wanted us to learn from quantum mechanics, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna, 15.12.2022

Select projects:

Philosophy of Language Meets Modern Physics: The Metasemantics of Non-Representationalist Approaches to Quantum Mechanics (pending)

The Meaning of Neo-Bohrian Quantum Theory (pending) 

The Principle of Permanence of Forms. University of Vienna (2024-2028)

Understanding Non-Categorical Science. University of Salzburg (2017-2019)

Objectivity and Modality. Utrecht University (2016-2017)

Fictions in Science. CEU Budapest (2013-2014) 

Select courses:

Mathematical Conservatism (University of Vienna, 2024)

Moral Machines: Introduction to Data Ethics (University of Salzburg, 2024)

Climate Ethics and Moral Disengagement (University of Salzburg, 2024)

Philosophy of Science (University of Vienna, 2022)

History and Philosophy of Quantum Logic (University of Vienna, 2021)

Introduction to Quantum Foundations (University of Vienna, 2020)

Quantum Ontology (University of Vienna, 2020)

The Development of Modern Metaphysics (University of Salzburg, 2019)

Scientific Metaphysics (University of Salzburg, 2017)

Select events

Metatheoretical Ideals in the History of Quantum Physics, Symposium at HOPOS 2024, University of Vienna, 9-12.07.2024 (with E. Crull, M. Rédei, and M. Stöltzner)

From Permanence to Conservativity: Metatheoretical Ideals in Early Formalism, University of Vienna, 4-5.12.2023 (with A. Bellomo and G. Schiemer)

Re-evaluating Solipsism, Physics meets Philosophy in Vienna Workshop, University of Vienna, 17.10.2023 (with S. Horvat)

APSE-CEU-IVC Lecture Series, University of Vienna, 10.2020-01.2023 (with M. Kronfeldner and M. Kusch)

Indeterminacy in Physics, CEU, Vienna, 16.12.2022 (with H. Ben-Yami)

Perspectives on Categoricity, 27.05.2022, University of Vienna (with G. Schiemer)

Humeanisms, 28-29.07.2018, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Fictionalisms, 4-5.04.2014, CEU Budapest (with T. Demeter)

The Formal Semantics of Theories: Conceptual and Historical Foundations, 7-8.06.2018, University of Salzburg (with C. Werndl)