{"id":9468,"date":"2025-03-22T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=9468"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:52:09","slug":"alex-moran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/alex-moran\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor\"\"<\/h3>\n

Ph.D.,<\/em> Cambridge University<\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Meta-Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Well-Being<\/p>\n

Personal Homepage: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.alexmoran.net\/<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Email: <\/strong>alex.moran@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a>
\nPhone<\/strong>: +90-312-290 1072
\n<\/em>Office: <\/strong>HZ-45B<\/p>\n

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About<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Alex Moran completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in (2019). He also has a BA in Philosophy from University College London (2012) and a B. Phil in Philosophy from Oxford University (2014). Before the move to Bilkent, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford (2019-22) an IRC Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (2022-23), a visiting scholar at Princeton (2024), and an SNSF Research Fellow at the Universit\u00e9 de Fribourg (2023-25). He is also a Research Associate at Stockholm University in connection with his project “Beyond Reductionism: Contingent Grounding and the Mind-Body Problem<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

Moran works mainly on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, as well as on select topics in meta-ethics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, Philosophical Studies<\/em>, Analytic Philosophy<\/em>, Philosophical Perspectives<\/em> and several more. He\u2019s also published co-authored and single-authored articles in various edited volumes with publishers like Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury, and has co-edited various special issues and volumes himself. He is currently writing his first academic book, The Doors of Perception: The Disclosive Nature of Sensory Experience<\/em>, and is negotiating an advanced contract with Oxford University Press. He also has a trade book under contract with Reaktion Press entitled In Praise of Mischief<\/em>, which offers a tongue-in-cheek philosophical analysis of mischief and trouble-making. Besides his academic writing, he\u2019s published various non-academic pieces for general audiences including essays, interviews, and book reviews in places like the Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, the Irish Times<\/em>, Oxonian Review<\/em>, Aeon<\/em> and Psyche<\/em>. When not writing philosophy, he reads literature voraciously: he has published poetry and is currently working on his first novel. He enjoys relaxing by playing the guitar or listening to music, and also likes to box.<\/p>\n

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Sample publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Moran, A. & C. Rossi. (forthcoming). Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics<\/em>, Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (forthcoming). In Praise of Mischief<\/em> (Reaktion Press).<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (forthcoming). Does Negative Epistemic Disjunctivism Solve the Screening Off Problem?<\/a> Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (forthcoming). Contingent Grounding Physicalism<\/a>. Analytic Philosophy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2025). Primitive colours in a physical world<\/a>. Synthese,<\/em> 205(198): 1-20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2024). Disjunctivism and the Causal Conditions of Hallucination<\/a>. Erkenntnis,<\/em> 89, 129\u2013152.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2023). Grounding Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument<\/a>. Philosophical Perspectives: A Supplement to No\u00fbs<\/em>, 37 (1): 269-289.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2023). Grounding Physicalism and “Moorean” Connections<\/a>. Inquiry,<\/em> October, 1\u201324.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2022). Living Without Microphysical Supervenience<\/a>. Philosophical Studies<\/em>, 179(1): 405-428.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2022). Memory Disjunctivism: A Causal Theory<\/a>. Review of Philosophy and Psychology,<\/em> 13, 1097\u20131117 (Second-place runner-up in the Philosophy of Memory Essay Prize hosted by the <\/span>Centre for the Philosophy of Memory at the Institute de Philosophie de Grenoble.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2021). Grounding the Qualitative: A New Challenge for Panpsychism<\/a>. Journal of Consciousness Studies<\/em>, 28 (9\/10): 163-180.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2019). Na\u00efve Realism, Hallucination, Causation: A New Response to the Screening Off Problem<\/a>. Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, 27(2): 368-382.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2019). Na\u00efve Realism, Seeing Stars, and Perceiving the Past<\/a>. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly<\/em>, 97(2): 368-382.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2018). The Paradox of Decrease and Dependent Parts<\/a>. Ratio<\/em>, 31(3): 273-284.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moran, A. (2018). Kind-Dependent Grounding<\/a>. Analytic Philosophy<\/em>, 59(3): 359-390.<\/span><\/p>\n

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