I still do some academic, mainly science popularization work as an independent philosopher of science.
I did my PhD at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK. Worked at the Budapest University of Technology and MTA (HUN-REN these days). 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.
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 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. 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.