INDEPENDENT Philosopher & researcher

An open mind begins with the willingness to see

Illustration of Dr. Nataliia Reva writing in a notebook, surrounded by thought-bubble sketches of war, reflecting her research on the philosophy of war

Research areas

Selected research & writing

Research spanning the areas below.

Primary research areas

Phenomenology

What attracts me in Phenomenology is that instead of beginning with abstract theories about the world, it asks how the world appears to us in real lived experience. My main line of inquiry within this area concerns both shared and individual embodied experience of war, and the alterations such experience brings.

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Philosophy and Ethics of War

My prime interest in this area is Critical War Studies, critiques of the Just War Theory, and Ethics of Care.

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Political Philosophy

My main focus in this area is on the tradition of Hannah Arendt, centred on the issues of the legitimacy of the state, political violence, (in)justice, collective actions and accountability, as well as what happens when the political order breaks down.

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Secondary research areas

Oral (History of) Philosophy

I’m interested in how orality and living dialogue — from Socratic practice to the digital analogues of our times — advances philosophy and its history today.

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Logic

My main interest lies within Informal Logic (Theory of Argumentation) and Critical Thinking, studied cognitively as an account of how people actually reason, decide, and err.

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Philosophy of Orientation

I am interested in how people orient themselves in times of crisis, how they make decisions under extreme and critical conditions, evaluate their chances, being limited in action or in time, and resist external manipulation and propaganda.

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Recent work

Doomed to Misapprehension, Aren’t We?

The paper examines how the lived perspectives of the outlooker, dweller, and veteran shape concept formation and mutual understanding in heterogeneous societies. Drawing on Alfred Schütz, it explains how embodied experience can transform shared meanings, produce failures of recognition, and influence the collective creation of understanding.

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Ethical Ontology of War

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The project is in its initial state. Its aim is to develop a new phenomenological-ethical account of war by asking not only whether war…

Evil as Embodied Experience

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The term “embodied experience of evil” does not refer to non-scientific or metaphysical states; rather, it denotes the experience a person undergoes when confronting…

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An independent research programme devoted to thinking through hard questions.

PhD, Postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and ethics of war

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