Philosopher of science (logic, mathematics, quantum mechanics). Modern drama and historical fiction fiend. Would-be half-marathoner. Spellbound father of three.
Some of my work in philosophy (and photography, d'oh!) is listed below. Here is my academic genealogy. I am also on arXiv, orcid, philpapers, philsci, and scholar.
Select publications:
Distribution can be Dropped: Reply to Rumfitt (forthcoming, Analysis)
Weyl's Quantifiers (forthcoming, collective volume for Oxford University Press)
An Alleged Tension Between Non-Classical Logics and Applied Classical Mathematics (The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024; with S. Horvat)
Is Bohr’s Correspondence Principle just Hankel's Principle of Permanence? (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2024)
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity (Foundations of Physics, 2023)
On the Categoricity of Quantum Mechanics (European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021)
Permanence as a Principle of Practice (Historia Mathematica, 2021)
Why Did Weyl Think that Emmy Noether Made Algebra the Eldorado of Axiomatics? (HOPOS, 2021)
Categoricity and Negation. A Note on Kripke’s Affirmativism (Logica Yearbook, 2019; with C. Brîncuș)
"Above the Slough of Despond": Weylean Invariantism and Quantum Physics (Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2018)
Objectivity and Understanding: A New Reading of Carnap's Aufbau (Synthese, 2015)
Why did Weyl Think that Formalism’s Victory Against Intuitionism Entails a Defeat of Pure Phenomenology? (History and Philosophy of Logic, 2014)
Select talks:
Permanent Possessions of the Mathematical Mind, Institute Vienna Circle, 5.06.2025
Metaphysical Trouble for Logical Abductivism, GWP 2025, Erlangen, 24-26.03.2025
Judging Properly: Weyl on Consistency, Quantification, and Correctness, The 16th French Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, Nancy 16-18.10.2024
Permanent Possessions of the Mind, Appropriations of Hume, Budapest, 13-14.09.2024
Categoricity Transfer in Quantum Theory, HOPOS 2024, 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
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, Graz, 1-3.08.2023
Perspective-Sensitive Invariantism, Invariance and Objectivity, Vienna, 28-29.06.2023
Distribution can be Dropped, ASL Logic Colloquium, Milan, 5-9.06.2023; ECAP 11, Vienna, 21-25.08.2023
The Meaning of Quantum Mechanics as a Principle Theory, Principles in Physics, Wuppertal, 27-29.03.2023
What Carnap wanted us to learn from quantum mechanics, Physics Meets Philosophy, 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 Principle of Permanence of Forms. University of Vienna (2024-2028)
Understanding Non-Categorical Science. University of Salzburg (2017-2019)
Select events:
Metatheoretical Ideals in the History of Quantum Physics, Symposium at HOPOS 2024, 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)
APSE-CEU-IVC Lecture Series, University of Vienna, 10.2020-01.2023 (with M. Kronfeldner and M. Kusch)
Select courses:
The Value of Conservatism (University of Salzburg, 2025)
Mathematical Conservatism (University of Vienna, 2024)
Climate Ethics and Moral Disengagement (University of Salzburg, 2024)
Moral Machines (University of Salzburg, 2024)
Philosophy of Science (University of Vienna, 2022)
History and Philosophy of Quantum Logic (University of Vienna, 2021)
Quantum Ontology (University of Vienna, 2020)