Oleh Bondar

Oleh Bondar

Position: Lecturer, Shandong University

Date of Birth: 1986.05.10 (40 years old)

ORCID: 0000-0003-2657-6510

Email: olegbondarb581@gmail.com

Research Interests

Metaphysics, particularly truthmaker theory, metaphysical grounding, and mereology.

Academic Appointments

  • 2022–present: Lecturer, Shandong University.
  • 2019–2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanjing Normal University.
  • 2015–2017: Junior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Education

  • 2018: Ph.D., Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Dissertation: The speculative grounding of the principle of subjectivity.
  • 2014: M.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
  • 2012: B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Selected Publications

  1. 2026. Bondar, O. “Meta-ground and Amalgamation.” Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, 27(1).
  2. 2025. Bondar, O. “On the Possibility of Fundamental Facts.” Manuscrito, 48(4).
  3. 2023. Bondar, O. “Access and Unknowable Obligations.” Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, 23(3), 1–16.
  4. 2022. Bondar, O. “Existence Requirement, World-Indexed Properties, and Contingent Apriori.” Kriterion, 63, 297–316.
  5. 2022. Bondar, O. “Between Existentialism and Anti-Existentialism.” Wisdom, 21(1), 204–216.
  6. 2022. Bondar, O. “A Short Argument Against Truthmaker Maximalism.” Metaphysica, 23(1), 27–36.
  7. 2022. Bondar, O. “Gödel’s Ontological Argument, Positive Properties, and Gaunilist Objection.” Sententiae, 40(3), 56–67.
  8. 2020. Bondar, O. “Edwards on the Incompatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will.” Sententiae, 39(2), 29–45.
  9. 2018. Bondar, O. “The problem of the Criterion of Knowledhe in Hegel’s philosophy: is Non-criterial Justification Possible?” Gileya, 128, 151–156 (in German).

Teaching

  • Contemporary Metaphysics
  • Logic and Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Modality
  • Academic English