I work mostly on philosophy of time and philosophy of religion, as well as on philosophy of death and philosophy of physics. I’m currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at an English liberal arts college within Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Before coming to Korea, I was a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Geneva. Before that, I completed a B. Sci. and M. Sci. in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, and a B. Phil. and D. Phil. in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Originally, I’m from North Rhine-Westphalia.

I’m here to work on some new ideas regarding time, including a metaphysical of view of time I’m calling the “ineffability view”. Across disciplines, including philosophy, physics, and neuroscience, researchers have on occasion suggested that the dynamic, flowing quality of temporal experience is already contained in the seemingly static spacetime models of relativity theory, when these are philosophically interpreted in the right way. Yet the metaphysical foundation of this strategy for reconciling the manifest image of time with the scientific image of time is not well understood. I argue that understanding it requires expanding the conceptual toolbox of philosophy of time in the direction of ineffability, which has long played a central role in certain non-Western philosophical traditions.