Dr. Nataliia Reva - Philosophy Researcher
I am a Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy with a background in Logic, Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. In my dissertation, I examined the relationship between logic and cognitive science, paying close attention to the impact the cognitive biases have on logical reasoning and how they can facilitate informal fallacies.
However, after earning my PhD, due to life circumstances, I transitioned into Phenomenology, Ethics, War Studies, and Political Philosophy.
My primary research topic today concerns war and embodied experience. I’m currently developing an individual project on the Phenomenology of War. It aims to reconceptualise war beyond political and legalistic definitions and to build an Ethical Ontology of War that explains how war alters the fundamental structures of human existence and how those alterations influence one’s morals.
In past years, I have written on embodied evils, orientation in crisis, fundamental needs of the displaced war children, flourishing under condition of war, intersubjective misapprehension due to different first-hand experiences, conditions under which a state loses its justification, criticism of Just War Theory and its Heroic Myth, and other related subjects.
I am also interested in topics such as justice, collective action and responsibility, and philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Claudia Card.
Since completing my PhD in 2021, I have been actively developing an international research profile through multiple fellowships in the UK, Austria, and Brazil.
Career at a glance
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy (2021), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; M.A. in Logic & Philosophy of Science, Paris-Sorbonne (2017); M.A. in Philosophy (2017) and B.A. in Philosophy (2015), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Appointments
Postdoctoral Researcher, UTFPR, Brazil (2024–2026); Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Birmingham (2022–2023); Visiting fellowships at Anglia Ruskin University (2025-2026), University of Reading (2025) and University of Vienna (2022, 2024).
Awards
Winner of the 2022–2024 Philosophical Essay Prize, Foundation for Philosophical Orientation (USA); Fundings awarded by Fundação Araucária for an individual project (2024) and Austrian Academy of Sciences for a short internship at the University of Vienna (2022, 2024) .
Selected publications
Journal articles
- War as Embodiment of Evil: Debunking the Heroic Myth. (2026) Co-authored with Michael Wilby. In Special Issue on “Just War”. Ethical Perspectives, 33(1), 7-37 (Scopus, Q4)
- Doomed to Misapprehension, Aren’t We? Schutzian Reflection On Shared Knowledge, Intersubjectivity and Embodied Experience. (2026) Studies in the History of Philosophy, 1(17), 57-78 (Scopus, Q4)
- A Journey Towards a New Embodied Problem of Evil. (2025) Philosophical Analysis, 45(2), 419-446 (Scopus, Q1)
- From Assimilation to Hospitality: Rethinking The Case of Education for Displaced War Children and The Necessity of Care. In Special Issue: “Humanitarian international law: A youth perspective”. The Youth Voice Journal, 16(1), 61-70 (Scopus, Q3).
Chapters & edited volumes
- No Flourishing Without Peace or Why the Global Flourishing Agenda Must Confront Wars and Political Instability in the World (forthcoming 2026/27). In “Reimagining Global Progress: Evaluating the Prospects of the Global Flourishing Goals”, ed. by Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Elena Antonacopoulou and Simon Duffy (Bloomsbury publisher).
- Hannah Arendt: When the State is Unjustified (forthcoming 2026/27). In “Questioning the State”, ed. by Gene Callahan and Leye Komolafe (Palgrave Macmillan).
Public essays
- Crises in Personal Orientation and Ways of Overcoming Them — winner of the 2022–2024 Philosophical Essay Prize Competition (The Foundation for Philosophical Orientation, USA), published in How to Orient Oneself in Times of Multiple Crises? (Orientations Press).
Talks & teaching
Invited talks
- War as an Embodiment of Evil (2026) — Online Lecture Series “Embodiments of Evil”.
- War! Phenomenon Worth Studying (2025) — ARU’s Philosophy Research Group Meeting.
- Philosophy of Orientation: A New Philosophical Answer to Today’s Crisis (2023) — Plato’s Cave, Kyiv.
- The Problem of Evil: History and Philosophy of the Question (2023) — Plato’s Cave, Kyiv.
Conferences
- Being and Time and the Being of War (2026) — 100th anniversary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, Meßkirch (Germany).
- Only God Can Save Us? War studied Phenomenologically as an Ethical-Ontological Condition Beyond Politics and Law. Re-thinking War with Martin Heidegger and Claudia Card (2026) — Heidegger 50 years on: Is There Still a God That Can Save Us? Annual Conferences of the British Society for Phenomenology, University of Sussex (UK).
- War as a Phenomenon Worth Studying (2025) — Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology. Annual Conferences of the British Society for Phenomenology, University College Dublin (Ireland).
- The Multiple Crises of Orientation (2024) — 5th Anniversary Meeting of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation, Nashville (USA).
- Is there a Problem with the Problem of Evil? (2023) — Third Global Philosophy of Religion Conference: The Problem of Evil and Suffering, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan).
- Un-divine-ing the Debate on the Problem of Evil (2022) — Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, University of Oxford (UK).
Teaching
- Teaching assistant (2017–2020), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv — seminars and individual consultations in Theory of Argumentation, Informal Logic (Critical Thinking) and Introduction to Logic (History of Logic).
- Mentor (2017–2020) — Debates Club for undergraduate and graduate students, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.