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. 

My latest essay “What Is Left of the Mind” can be found on 3 Quarks Daily.

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 What is left of the mind.