I am a philosopher of mind with an interest in the self, consciousness, subjectivity, and value. In addition to my scholarly essays, I have also written for a general audience. This website features my writing in both genres.

Professional background

I am Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University – Newark. I came to the US in 1989 from Budapest. I got my PhD at Rutgers, New Brunswick. I have been teaching at Rutgers University – Newark since 2010, before that, I taught at Yale for 10 years, and before that, I was a postdoc at Cornell. 

I have just completed a senior research fellowship at the Central European University Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, and a year-long NEH fellowship to work on a book with the tentative title What is left of the mind.

A story on AI and some recent essays in 3 Quarks Daily can be found here, here, and here. 

Here is a roundtable discussion at the Helix Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Here is a lecture at Central European University where I lay out the basic outlines of my book project.

Here is a podcast interview on Consciousness Live!