Mikael Pettersson
M.A. with a Major in Theoretical Philosophy, Stockholm University (2004).
PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University (since 2004).
Member of The Research School in Aesthetic Studies, Stockholm University (since 2007).
Part-Time Lecturer, Lingnan University (Spring 2012).
Office: AR 125, Leung
Kau Kui Biulding
Phone:
+852 2616 7447
E-mail: mikael.pettersson@philosophy.su.se
Research
My primary
research interest is in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. I have just
completed my thesis on the philosophy of pictures and photographs, entitled Seeing
What Is Not There: Essays on Pictures and Photographs. Issues discussed in
the thesis include: the phenomenology of experiencing photographs; the role of
imagination in pictorial experience; the role of causality in photography; and
the possible contents of pictures and photographs. Other philosophical
interests include metaphysics, philosophy of mind (especially imagination and
perception), and Schopenhauer's philosophy.
Recent Papers & Work in Progress
–
'Shot in the Dark: Notes on Photography, Causality, and Content.' Forthcoming
in Philosophical Quarterly [penultimate
draft]
–
'Seeing What Is Not There: Pictorial Experience, Imagination, and
Non-localization.' The British Journal of Aesthetics, 51:3 (2011), pp.
279-294. [preprint
pdf] [final]
–
'Depictive Traces: On the Phenomenology of Photography.' The Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 69:2 (2011), pp. 185-196. [preprint pdf] [final]
– 'The Glimmering of Facts: A Note on Seeing-in and Imagination.'
Teaching
Previous
teaching includes tutorials on the history of theoretical philosophy (from
Thales to Kant) and on currents in modern philosophy (Nietzsche, Quine,
Goodman, Heidegger, et al.), Dept of Philosophy, Stockholm University; a course
on perception and depiction at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in 2009; courses
on aesthetics at the universities of Stockholm and Linkšping; lectures on 'Scientific
Method and Research Ethics,' Dept of Philosophy, Stockholm University; and
various courses within the Master's Programme in
Curating Art, Dept of Art History, Stockholm University.
Spring
2012:
–
'Perception and Depiction,' Dept of Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Hong
Kong.
– 'Issues in Analytic Philosophy of Art,' Dept of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Selected Talks
– 'Walton's Jolt: On the Powers of Photography,' CMM Graduate Conference, University of Leeds, June 2007.
–
'Photography, Traces and Phenomenology,' Lingnan University, March 2009.
–
'Perceiving Pictured Possibilities: Seeing-in, Seeing-that, and Imagination,'
colloquium Fictionality,
Possibility, Reality / II, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic, Prague, April 2011.
