I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. My main interests are in logic, language, and metaphysics. My supervisor is Graham Priest. I am also Digital Director of the Futures Initiative and a photographer.
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Futures Initiative
CUNY Graduate Center
Digital Director
2024 – present
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- Administrator and developer for official The Futures Initiative website (WordPress), including domain and backend management
- Administrator for CUNY Graduate Center subsite for The Futures Initiative (Drupal), including events and news postings with the GC Communications and Marketing team
- Professional event and portrait photography
OpenCUNY
CUNY Graduate Center
Coordinator
2024 – 2025
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- WordPress multisite administration with ~1000 users, including custom domain and email management
- Developing official website of CUNY Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council (DGSC)
- Collaborated on DGSC site migration from Drupal to WordPress across web hosting services
- Successfully deployed custom room reservation system for DGSC (frontend and backend) using open-source LibreBooking
- Developed custom forms management system for DGSC (frontend and backend) using open-source FormTools
- Advocate for Open Source and Open Educational Resources
City College, City University of New York
OER Project Faculty
2024 – present
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- Developing fully open introductory course on formal logic based on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles
- All materials natively hosted on Pressbooks
- CC BY-NC-SA licensed
Baruch College, City University of New York
Adjunct Instructor
2020 – 2024
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- PHI 3010 – Symbolic Logic
Fully OER course using own introductory textbook to symbolic logic based on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles - PHI 1600 – Logic and Moral Reasoning
Fully OER course - PHI 1100 – Ethics and Critical Thinking
Mina Rees Library
CUNY Graduate Center
College Assistant
2020 – 2023
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- Circulation Assistant at the Mina Rees Library of the Graduate Center
- Responsible for check-in and check-out of library materials, including stacks, reserves and Interlibrary Loan using Alma Library Management System
- Patron account management duties and holdings reports
- On-site patron assistance
Auróra Commmunity House
Head of Communications
2018 – 2019
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- Responsible for all communications by Auróra, including social media, web, and PR, encompassing copy, graphics, photo, and video, with special focus on event marketing
- Communicating to an audience of >25k people
- Coordinated crisis communications and subsequent fundraising campaign, including national and international press
- Coordinated volunteer communications team of ~10, worked closely with Chief Coordinator, event managers, artists, and NGOs
- Participated in international meet-ups and projects with other NGOs
Deviszont Community Space
Co-Founder and mentor
2017 – 2019
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- Co-founded educational NGO for low-income teens from ground up based on critical pedagogical principles
- Involved in all aspects of foundational work, including organizational design, fundraising, communications and event planning, grant writing, and meetings with diverse stakeholders (educators, academics, politicians)
- Secured funding, physical space, and recognition to launch weekly afterschool work with students
- Participated as student mentor
- Continued organizational work in background
Bánkitó Festival
Head of Social Media and Creative Writer
2016 – 2019
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- Head writer responsible for all written communications, including web, social media, print, and PR
- Social media manager responsible for all channels
- Communicating to an audience of >20k visitors
- Worked closely with organizing team including Festival Director, Communications and Marketing, sponsors, artists (music, theatre, visual), and NGOs
CUNY Graduate Center
PhD in Philosophy
2019 – present (ABD)
Dissertation
Title: Model-theoretic Arguments in Philosophy
Advisor: Graham Priest
Committee: Mel Fitting, Anandi Hattiangadi, Muhammad Ali Khalidi
MA & MPhil in Philosophy
2022
Central European University
MA in Philosophy
2016 – 2018
MA Thesis
Title: Trees without Models: Truth-Valuational Semantics and the Tableau Method
Advisor: Hanoch Ben-Yami
Eötvös Loránd University
BA in Liberal Arts
2012 – 2016
BA Thesis
Title: Fictionalism in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Language
Thesis advisor: Zsófia Zvolenszky
College For Advanced Studies in Social Theory
Member in-residence
2013 – 2015
University College Dublin
Erasmus+ Scholarship
2014/15 Fall
Trying to adjunct without knowing how: adjunction and the adoption problem
Analysis, Volume 83, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 277–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac055
Abstract
The adoption question asks whether there are logical rules that cannot be adopted if one does not already infer in accordance with them. Several philosophers, most famously Saul Kripke and Romina Padró, agree that there are such rules. Accordingly, they agree that there is an adoption problem. However, there is disagreement over which rules are unadoptable. In particular, while most agree that if there is an adoption problem, modus ponens and universal instantiation are in its scope, many would exclude adjunction from the list. In this paper, I argue that adjunction is in the scope of the adoption problem. Then I show that the most straightforward counterargument against adjunction being in the scope of the problem, which tries to reformulate the adjunction rule into a more palatable one, does not work.