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Philosophy, Metaphysics, Mind, Metaethics
Switzerland, Sweden

Biography

About

I am an SNSF Research Fellow at the Université de Fribourg and a Research Associate at Stockholm University. Before the move to Fribourg, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford (2019-21) and an IRC Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (2022-23). I was also recently a Visiting Scholar at Princeton (Spring 2024).

I received my BA in philosophy from University College London, before completing the B. Phil at the University of Oxford (University College). I wrote my PhD at the University of Cambridge (Queens' College) under the supervision of Professor Tim Crane. Whilst at Cambridge, I also held research positions as a Jacobsen Fellow and a Mind Student.

In my research, I mainly focus on issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, as well as select topics in metaethics. I also have research interests in early analytic philosophy, and early modern philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. Much of my current research focuses on the metaphysics of perception and the mind-body problem.

Activities

Employment (3)

University of Fribourg: Fribourg, Freiburg, CH

2023-09-01 to 2025-08-31 | SNSF post-doctoral fellow
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Alex Moran

Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2022-10-01 to 2024-09-01 | IRC Post-Doctoral Fellow (Philosophy)
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Alex Moran

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2019-10-01 to 2022-09-01 | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (Faculty of Philosophy)
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Alex Moran

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2014-10-01 to 2019-07-04 | PhD (Faculty of Philosophy)
Education
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Alex Moran

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2012-10-01 to 2014-06-01 | B. Phil (Faculty of Philosophy)
Education
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Alex Moran

University College London: London, GB

2009-10-01 to 2012-09-01 | B.A. (Department of Philosophy)
Qualification
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Professional activities (16)

Stockholm University: Stockholm, SE

2023-01-01 to 2027-01-01 | Research Associate (Philosophy)
Invited position
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Alex Moran

Princeton University: Princeton, US

2024-02-01 to 2024-05-01 | Visiting Scholar (Philosophy)
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Alex Moran

University of Fribourg: Fribourg, CH

2021-08-01 to 2021-08-01 | Visiting Researcher (Philosophy)
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Alex Moran

Central European University: Vienna, AT

2021-07-01 to 2021-07-31 | Visiting Researcher (Philosophy)
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Alex Moran

University of Oxford University College Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2019-10-01 to 2021-07-31 | Research Associate
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Institut de philosophie de Grenoble: Grenoble, FR

2021-04-01 | Second-place in the Philosophy of Memory Essay Prize. Title: ‘Memory Disjunctivism: A Causal Theory’. Published in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. (Philosophy)
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Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion: Oxford, GB

2017-10-01 to 2018-09-30 | Visiting Fellowship
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2017-10-01 | Craythorne Scholarship (Queens' College and the Worshipful Society of Cutlers)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2014-10-01 | AHRC-Walker Studentship (Full PhD Funding) (Philosophy )
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University College, London: London, GB

2012-07-01 | Rose Morrison Medal (For highest degree results across the Arts and Humanities Faculty) (Arts and Humanities Faculty )
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University College, London: London, GB

2012-07-01 | Richard Murphy Memorial Prize (for best third-year exam results) (Philosophy )
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University College, London: London, GB

2012-07-01 | Dean's List Certificate. For excellence in undergraduate exams
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University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

2012-01-01 | T.H. Green Scholarship (c. £40,000). Full Scholarship for the B. Phil (Philosophy)
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University College London: London, GB

2011-11-01 | Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence (Arts and Humanities Faculty )
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Alex Moran

University College, London: London, GB

2010-07-01 | A J Ayer Prize (for the highest second-year exam results) (Philosophy)
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University College London: London, GB

2010-07-01 | Dawes Hicks Prize (for excellence in first-year exams) (Philosophy )
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Funding (8)

Grounding Physicalism: A New Approach to the Mind-Body Problem

2023-09 to 2025-08 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
GRANT_NUMBER:

T210467

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Alex Moran

Beyond Reductionism: Contingent Grounding and the Mind-Body Problem

2023-01 to 2026-12 | Grant
Swedish Research Council (Stockholm, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2022-01827

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Alex Moran

Grounding Physicalism: A New Approach to the Mind-Body Problem

2022-10 to 2024-09 | Grant
Irish Research Council (Dublin, IE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

GOIPD/2022/152

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Alex Moran

Naïve Realism and Physical Reality

2019-10 to 2022-09 | Award
Leverhulme Trust (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

ECF-2019-349

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Naïve Realism and the Physical World

2018-10 to 2019-09 | Award
Mind Association (London , GB)
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Alex Moran

Naïve Ontology and the Physical World

2017-10 to 2018-09 | Award
Royal Institute of Philosophy (London, GB)
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Alex Moran

Naïve Ontology and the Physical World

2017-10 to 2018-09 | Award
Aristotelian Society (London, GB)
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Alex Moran

Austinian Disjunctivism Defended

2014-10 to 2017-09 | Award
Arts and Humanities Research Council (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

AH/L503897/1

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Works (26)

Seeing Double: An Interview with Katherine Brabon

The Oxford Review of Books
2024-07-12 | Magazine article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

The Mind Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

The Philosophical Quarterly
2024-06-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Disjunctivism and the Causal Conditions of Hallucination

Erkenntnis
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Philosophical Reflections on Albert Camus

Oxonian Review
2024-01-05 | Magazine article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Epicurus on Happiness and Living Unnoticed

The Irish Times
2024-01-01 | Newspaper article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Grounding physicalism and the knowledge argument

Philosophical Perspectives
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Grounding physicalism and ‘Moorean’ connections

Inquiry
2023-10-17 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0020-174X
Part of ISSN: 1502-3923
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Calme, Luxe, Tranquillité: Review of Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life, by Emily Austin, OUP

Times Literary Supplement
2023-08-11 | Book review
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Is the Guidance to Love Our Enemies Oppressive, or Freeing?

Psyche
2023-07-17 | Magazine article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

The Delights of Mischief

Aeon
2022-08-08 | Magazine article
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

David Papineau, "The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience."

Philosophy in Review
2021-11-24 | Journal article | Author
URI:

https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/20369

Part of ISSN: 1920-8936
Contributors: Alex Moran
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University of Victoria Libraries

Memory Disjunctivism: a Causal Theory

Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2021-09-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1878-5158
Part of ISSN: 1878-5166
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Alex Moran
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Living without microphysical supervenience

Philosophical Studies
2021-07-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-8116
Part of ISSN: 1573-0883
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Alex Moran
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Grounding the Qualitative: A New Challenge for Panpsychism

Journal of Consciousness Studies
2021-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1355-8250
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Alex Moran
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Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism

Journal of Consciousness Studies
2021-01-01 | Journal issue or edition
Part of ISSN: 1355-8250
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Alex Moran

The Redness of the Rose: Is Reality Permeated by Mentality? Review of Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, by Philip Goff

Times Literary Supplement
2020-04-04 | Book review
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Austinian Disjunctivism Defended

2019-10-16 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Naïve Realism, Hallucination, and Causation: A New Response to the Screening Off Problem

Australasian Journal of Philosophy
2019-04-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0004-8402
Part of ISSN: 1471-6828
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Alex Moran

Naïve Realism, Seeing Stars, and Perceiving the Past

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
2019-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0279-0750
Part of ISSN: 1468-0114
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Alex Moran

Kind‐Dependent Grounding

Analytic Philosophy
2018-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2153-9596
Part of ISSN: 2153-960X
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

The paradox of decrease and dependent parts

Ratio
2018-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0034-0006
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Alex Moran
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Review of Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, by Stephan Blatti and Paul Snowdon (eds), OUP

Philosophy in Review, 37 (3): 94-96
2017-01-01 | Book review
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

In Praise of Mischief

Reaktion Press
Book
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics

Oxford: Oxford University Press
Edited book
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Pluralism, Alternate Composition Cases, and Conditional Grounding

Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics
Book chapter
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Review of J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer, by M. W. Rowe, OUP

Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Book review
Contributors: Alex Moran
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Alex Moran

Peer review (18 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for Acta analytica. (1)
Review activity for Erkenntnis. (2)
Review activity for Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences. (1)
Review activity for Philosophia. (1)
Review activity for Philosophical studies. (7)
Review activity for Review of philosophy and psychology. (1)
Review activity for Synthese. (5)