I am a philosopher interested both in contemporary and historical thought. I have interests in the philosophical challenge of Neural Network based A.I. (so, Deep Learning/Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Transformers/Large Language Models). These recent developments may throw many of our traditional theories out the door.
And from a historical perspective, I am interested in re-reading the genealogy of 20^thC European philosophy. This pulls me towards certain phases of 20^th C French and German philosophy. But, more recently, also towards the long Middle Ages. My historical interests are not author-centric but 'constellational,' in Dieter Henrich's sense. I think the US American distinction between Analytic and Continental is a distinction without a difference - except in US institutions.

Topically, I work on time, language and event-metaphysics. I go where these things go, and that is often into the history of philosophy. Most of what I work on was not originally written in English. So a fair amount of the debates I engage with are not Anglophone.

I often gravitate towards German phenomenology and French Structuralism and attempt to work out the necessity of certain post-War French modes of thought from those two paradigmatic sources.

While this may sound like a simply antiquarian approach to the history of philosophy, I surmise that the working-out of the interstitial moments, in each case, opens a new avenue of thought, creates a new set of philosophemes, modifies the vocabulary of the philosopher in a novel fashion, and that it does so not merely contingently but with necessity.

As an example of this, I would point to what I consider the massively important return of Structuralist Linguistics in the geneology of GPTs and LLMs. A project that I am actively pursuing in 2026.


I am also a co-founder and, with Susanne Schilz, the Northern California co-convenor of the
West-Coast Heidegger Workshop. This is a project intended to foster a historical and philological approach to Heidegger's works as well as to provide a regular venue for Heidegger studies in California. We have succeeded in the latter, but are still working on the former! Here are our previous programs and some photos.