Assoc. Prof. IVAN V. IVANOV
E-mail: iivanov@metu.edu.tr
Phone: +90 312 210 3108 Office: B37
AREAS OF INTEREST
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy (esp. Aristotle), Ethics
EDUCATION
PhD (2016): Philosophy, University of Warwick.
MA (2012): Philosophy, Northwestern University.
BA (2005): Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
(2026-) Middle East Technical University, Department of Philosophy: Associate Professor
(2023-2026) Capital Normal University (China), Department of Philosophy: Associate Professor
(2021-2022) Sun Yat-sen University (China), Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai): Assistant Professor
(2017-20) Shandong University (China), School of Philosophy and Social Science: Assistant Professor
(2016) University of Sussex, School of History, Art History and Philosophy: Teaching Fellow
PUBLICATIONS
(forthcoming) “Naïve Realism and the Laws of Appearance.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
(forthcoming) “Russellian Monism or Hylmorphism?”. Asian Journal of Philosophy.
(2025a). “Presentation and Content.” Balkan Journal of Philosophy 17(1), 54-66.
(2025b). (w A. Schipper) “Perceptual Metaphysics: the Case for Composites.” Philosophical Explorations 28(1), 51–67.
(2025c). (w Z. Gu) “Hallucinations in Naïve Realism.” Universitas 610: 149-167.
(2025d). “Is Reducing Intentionality Avoidable?” Australasian Philosophical Review (8)1, 74-78.
(2024). “ Bad to the Bone: Essentially Bad Perceptual Experiences.”Inquiry 67(9), 3630–3656.
(2023). “The Integration Problem for Naïve Realism.” Metaphilosophy 54(5):697-716.
(2022). “Naïve Realism with or without the Content View.” Topoi 41:221-225.
(2021a). “Sensing Mind-independence.” Synthese 199(5-6):14931–14949.
(2021b). “Properties in Sight and in Thought.” Synthese 198(8):7049-7071.
(2019a). “How to Tell Essence (when you sense one).” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49(2): 147-168.
(2019b). “Experience and Demonstrative Thought.” Tsinghua Studies of Western 11(1): 120-133.
(2017). “Property-awareness and Representation.” Topoi 36(2):331-342.
(2011). “Pains and Sounds.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 18(9-10):143-163.
Book chapters:
(2019). “Navigating Berkeley’s Puzzle.” In Automata’s Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind, ed. by M . Curado & S. Gouveia. Vernon Press.
Miscellaneous:
(2013). “The Case against Cognitive Phenomenal Intentionality.” In Proceedings of 2013’s Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
TALKS
“Naïve Realism, Hylomorphism, and the Time-lag”
(2026) New Metaphysical Approaches to Consciousness Conference, Fudan University;
(2025) Symposium on Charles’ The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the Mind-Body Problem, Tsinghua University.
“Physicalism is not our Default”
(2026) Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium, National Taiwan University;
(2025) Causation, Grounding and Explanation Conference, Fudan University;
(2025) Philosophy Seminar, Shanxi University.
“Neutral Monism or Hylomorphism”
(2025) Russellian Monism Workshop, Capital Normal University.
“Perceptual Fine-tuning”
(2024) Mind, Powers, and Agency Conference, Sun Yat-sen University;
(2024) Analytic Philosophy Forum, Peking University;
(2023) Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birkbeck College.
“The Self is a Living Substance”
(2024) Lecture, Sun Yat-sen University;
(2024) Time and the Self: a Workshop, Capital Normal University.
“A Metaphysics for Naïve Realism”
(2022) Perception and Fundamental Reality Conference, Uppsala University.
“Perceptual Ontology”
(2022) China’s National Conference of Analytic Philosophy, Southwest University for Nationalities.
“Lessons from Property-perception”
(2021) Analytic Philosophy Colloquium, Wuhan University;
(2021) Philosophy Colloquium, Tsinghua University.
“Continuism and the Singular Purport View of Memory”
(2021) Memory and Mind: a Sofia-Grenoble workshop, Universite Grenoble/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
“Naïve Realism and the Laws of Appearance”
(2021) Mind & Metaphysics Seminar, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai).
“Sensing Mind-independence”
(2020) Mind & Metaphysics Seminar, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai);
(2020) Work in Progress Philosophy Seminar, Beijing University.
“Perceiving Truth-makers”
(2020) The Metaphysics of Property-perception Workshop, Oxford University;
(2019) Philosophy Seminar, East China Normal University.
“The Compounded Epistemic Value of Consciousness”
(2019) Epistemology Seminar, NYU-Shanghai;
(2019) Philosophy Seminar, Xidian University.
“Revelation and Observationality”
( 2019) Mind & Action Research Seminar, University of Warwick;
(2018) Philosophy Research Seminar, Huaqiao University.
“Properties in Sight and in Thought”
(2018) 4th Analytic Philosophy Workshop, Beijing Normal University;
(2018) 3rd Natural Cognition Conference, University of Macau;
(2018) Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association;
(2018) Kinds of Knowledge Workshop, Zhejiang University;
(2018) Research Seminar, Tsinghua University.
“Non-naturalism about Perception”
(2017) International Workshop on Philosophical Methodology, Huaqiao University.
“Externalism about Hallucination”
(2017) Analytic Forum, Shandong University;
(2016) Meeting of the Bulgarian Society of Analytics Philosophy, Sofia University.
“Observational Concepts and Experience”
(2016) Early Career Mind Network Meeting, Glasgow University;
(2016) Research Seminar, University of Sussex.
“Transparency with Revelation in Color Perception”
(2015) Institute of Philosophy, University of London.
“From Property-awareness to Representation”
(2015) Perception and Reasoning Workshop, University of Tubingen;
(2014) London-Warwick Research Forum, University of Warwick.
“Naïve Realism and the Perception of Properties”
(2014) Relationalism vs. Representationalism Workshop, Antwerp University;
(2014) Research Seminar, University of Warwick.
“The Case Against Cognitive Phenomenal Intentiality”
(2014) 4th Ernst Mach Workshop, University of Prague;
(2013) ESPP Annual Meeting, University of Granada.
“Against Trope Representationalism”
(2013) Perception Workshop, Cardiff University.
GRANTS
1. (2024-7) Humanities and Social Science Grant, China Ministry of Education—for A Metaphysics for Naïve Realism (Primary investigator)
2. (2023-6) Humanities and Social Science Grant, China Ministry of Education—for A Study of the Subject-Attribute Distinction (First co-investigator)
3. (2021-3) 100 Talent Scholar Research Grant, Sun Yat-sen University
4. (2021-4) Humanities and Social Science Grant, China Ministry of Education—for Perceptual Experience Beyond the Mainstream (First co-investigator)
5. (2019-21) John Fell Grant, Oxford University—for Perceiving Properties in a World of Objects (First co-investigator)
6. (2018-20) International Project Grant, Shandong University—for The Structure and Nature of Thought and Reasoning (Second co-investigator)
7. (2017-20) Start-Up Grant, Shandong University
ORGANIZATION
1. (2023-5) Anglophone Beijing Colloquium Series
2. (2025) AI Ethics Conference @Capital Normal University
3. (2023) Time and the Self Workshop @Capital Normal University.
4. (2022) Perception and Fundamental Reality Workshop @Uppsala University.
5. (2021) Metaphysics: Meaning and Method Workshop @Sun Yat-sen University.
6. (2019) Trends in Mind and Action Conference @Shandong University.
7. (2018) Workshop on Philosophical Psychology @Shandong University
8. (2013) MindGrad, International Graduate Conference @University of Warwick.
9. (2011-2) Phenomenology and Perception Seminar @Northwestern University.
RECENT COURSES
Undergraduate
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Postgraduate
Metaphysics, Meta-metaphysics, Philosophy of Perception, Perception in Ancient Philosophy, Ethics