Mette Leonard Høeg

Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Mette Leonard Høeg is a hosted research fellow in philosophy at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. She is also a literary critic, and the author of Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory (2022) and anthology editor of Literary Theories of Uncertainty (2023).

Written by Mette Leonard Høeg

Painting of large trees with exposed roots in a forest, sunlight filtering through leaves, house visible in the background.

Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me

by Mette Leonard Høeg