At present I am not doing proper academic work, however as a hobby I am still interested in the topics I worked on.
I did my PhD at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK. My thesis was about the causal/ontological autonomy of the special sciences focusing on psychology. I was advised by prof. Robin Hendry and prof. Sophie Gibb. I wrote papers on the same subject and on issues connected to the phyilosophy of biology, e.g. organisational accounts of what is to be alive. Worked at the Budapest University of Technology and MTA Research Network (that institution suffered a ridiculus series of name changes in recent years, I stopped counting).
Research interests:
Causation (causal explanation, levels of causation in the sciences)
Reductionism, emergence (the exclusion problem, the nature of part-whole explanations)
Philosophy of Mind and Biology (mechanisms and mechanistic explanations in the life sciences, system-theoretical accounts of the living, the status of teleological discourse)
With respect to teleology and teleological intuitions I am much less skeptical than most contemporary scientists / philosophers. I started a research project together with Kodaj Daniel as a fellow of the teloi.org project in 2021 that aimed to justify a wide range of teleological intuitions countering the trend that aims to purge teleology from metaphysics and science. In doing so I relied on the so-called organisational view of teleology that gained traction in the last decade in the philosophy of biology. Even though in 2023 I left academia I still do some work on this latter topic.