Peer-reviewed contributions are marked with an asterisk. Last updated: August 2026.

Monographs

• in prep.  Mathematik. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, series Grundthemen Philosophie · under contract · submission spring 2027.
• 2016  Ineffability and its Metaphysics. The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan · Book of the Month in The Expository Times, reviewed in seven international outlets: Keith Ward, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Robert Clarke, Culture and Dialogue; Guy Bennett-Hunter, The Expository Times; Sebastian Gäb, Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur; Carrie Figdor, New Books in Philosophy; William Franke and Chance Woods, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory; Sameer Yadav, The Journal of Analytic Theology · graduate workshop on the book, Cornell University, 8 May 2017.

Articles

• forthc.  ∗ Propositional Knowledge and Ineffable Understanding. The Journal of Value Inquiry.
• forthc.  ∗ Religiously Informed Resilience. Tzedakah, Hospitality, and Prayer (with Kelly James Clark and Abdul Basit Zafar). In: Rik Peels, Michele Grossman and Elanie Rodermond (eds.), Extremism and Resilience (series Extreme Belief and Behavior, vol. 6). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2026  ∗ Sinn und Selbsterkenntnis. In: Thomas Oehl and Thomas Enthofer (eds.), Vom Geist der Geschichte. Zu Axel Hutters Narrativer Ontologie. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 105–119.
• 2025  ∗ Schöpfung und Verantwortung. Eine mathematische Perspektive auf die Demut. Philosophisches Jahrbuch 132(2), 273–285.
• 2025  ∗ Mathematics and the Limits of Language. In: Richard Gaskin (ed.), The Question of Linguistic Idealism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 219–236.
• 2025  ∗ Religion and Language (with Andrea Vestrucci). In: Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• 2024  ∗ Mathematical Pluralism and Indispensability. Erkenntnis 89(7), 2899–2923.
• 2023  The Rationality of Theism. In: Jack Symes (ed.), Philosophers on God. Talking about Existence. London: Bloomsbury.
• 2021  ∗ Mathematical Indispensability and Arguments from Design. Philosophia 49(5), 2085–2102.
• 2021  ∗ Whereof One Cannot Speak. In: Daniel Frank and Aaron Segal (eds.), Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. A Critical Guide (series Cambridge Critical Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 125–140.
• 2020  ∗ Mathematical and Moral Disagreement. The Philosophical Quarterly 70(279), 302–327.
• 2020  Enduring Disagreement. What We Can Learn from the Pluralism Debate in Mathematics. In: Birte Kleine-Benne (ed.), Dispositiv-Erkundungen | Exploring Dispositifs. Berlin: Logos, 153–156.
• 2020  Über Mathematik und Uneinigkeit. philosophie.ch – Swiss Portal for Philosophy.
• 2019  Was wir von der Mathematik für unsere Debatten lernen können. Süddeutsche Zeitung, feature section, 7 January 2019.
• 2019  Sind Fragen nach Gott Anfängerfragen? Praefaktisch. Ein Philosophieblog.
• 2018  ∗ Modal Structuralism and Theism. In: Fiona Ellis (ed.), New Models of Religious Understanding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 151–171. Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, 6 September 2019.
• 2018  What’s Hot in Mathematical Philosophy? The Reasoner 12(8).
• 2017  ∗ Access Problems and Explanatory Overkill. Philosophical Studies 174(11), 2731–2742.
• 2017  ∗ Aesthetic Ineffability. Philosophy Compass 12(2), e12396.
• 2017  Unspeakable Things. Life’s Most Meaningful Experiences Can Leave Us Tongue-Tied. Aeon. A Digital Magazine of Ideas and Culture.
• 2017  What Language Cannot Grasp (in Hebrew). Alaxon.
• 2016  ∗ On Mathematical and Religious Belief, and On Epistemic Snobbery. Philosophy 91(1), 69–92.
• 2016  ∗ Mathematischer und religiöser Glaube. In: Rico Gutschmidt and Thomas Rentsch (eds.), Gott ohne Theismus? Neue Positionen zu einer zeitlosen Frage. Münster: mentis, 195–216.
• 2013  ∗ Against “Metaphysics Running Amok”. Hegel, Adorno and the Ineffable. In: Lisa Herzog (ed.), Hegel’s Thought in Europe. Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 133–147.

Reviews

• 2016  Fiona Ellis, God, Value, and Nature (OUP 2015). Philosophy 91(2), 281–284.
• 2014  David Chalmers, Constructing the World (OUP 2012). The Philosophical Quarterly 64(257), 651–655.
• 2014  Howard Wettstein, The Significance of Religious Experience (OUP 2012). Religious Studies 50(1), 119–123.

Outreach

• 2026  Closer to Truth · US documentary series, interview series on metaphysics, epistemology and mathematics.
• 2025  RIAS podcast Schiefheilungen · episode 24, “Jüdische Selbstorganisation angesichts akademischen Antisemitismus”, with Stella Schulte-Frohlinde and Felix Balandat, 23 June 2025.
• 2023  Royal Institution, London · panel discussion The Mystery of Existence with Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne and Jessica Frazier.
• 2021  The Huffington Post (Spain) · interview on the philosophy of mathematics.
• 2020  World Science Festival, New York · panel discussion Does Math Reveal Reality? with Brian Greene, Max Tegmark, Sheldon Goldstein and David Albert.
• 2020  Institute of Art and Ideas · podcast Philosophy for Our Times, episode How Maths Changed Philosophy.
• 2019  HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye · panel discussion Lost in Language with Saul Kripke, Paul Boghossian and Hilary Lawson.
• 2019  iai.tv · talk The Mathematics of Thought, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye.
• 2019  Deutsche Welle · Auf ein Wort with Michel Friedman, on mathematics.
• 2019  Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk · radio interview “Von den Mathematikern lernen heißt Diskussion und Pluralismus lernen”, 7 January 2019.
• 2017  John Templeton Foundation · interview God, Science, and Ineffable Knowledge.