I am currently a visiting professor at CEU whose research topics include phenomenology, existentialism, and post-structuralism. Through the lens of these traditions, my publications and conference presentations have addressed various topics, including metaphysics, emotions, religion, perception, popular culture, the analytic philosophy of deep disagreement, epistemic injustice, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the philosophy of virtual worlds. Philosophers I have engaged with in my work include Heidegger, Lyotard, Derrida, Kant, Wittgenstein, Camus, Sartre, Patočka, Foucault, and Deleuze.
I also have an abiding interest in the philosophy of games and sport, having published an article on sport ethics which addresses gamesmanship in professional darts, and other articles which concern the existential and psychological themes of video games. I am particularly interested in the ways in which video games engage philosophical ideas, make arguments and convey insight into what it means to be human – not just by embedding them into their narratives, but through their mechanics, how they are designed and structured. I am currently working on an interdisciplinary edited volume on the recent, influential 'Roguelite' genre of video games.
I graduated from CEU’s doctoral program in philosophy with a thesis on Heidegger which interpreted Heidegger’s phenomenology of Dasein as philosophical anthropology and refuted Heidegger’s career-long arguments against this view. In support of my argument, I developed Heidegger’s analysis of the ‘revelatory moods’ of anxiety and boredom and offered a phenomenological account of joy, a mood Heidegger indicated was of the same type as anxiety and boredom, but without saying why.
Since graduating from CEU, I have held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) and the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan) with projects which examine the Czech philosopher and political dissident Jan Patočka’s nuanced critical engagement with Heideggerian phenomenology. I have also held teaching positions at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), the Open Learning Initiative (OLIVE) education program for refugees and asylum seekers, and CEU.
