Postgraduate research students

I mainly focus on overlapping fields of aesthetics and philosophy of technology. My PhD thesis mainly focuses on solving issues around whether the distinctive interactivity of video games can bridge the gap between virtual perceptions and cognitive effects of virtual reality?

In contrast to traditional artworks, video games are distinguished by their attractive feature, interactivity, which seems to be somehow evolved into an ontological quality of not only video games, but also digital arts. The proposed research concentrates on explaining what is distinctive about interactivity of video games and attempts to argue for interactive cognitivism, which holds that interactive perceptions can be sources for a new kind of cognitive structure and thus can shed light on issues around virtual values. The expected benefits include not only helping us better understand the ontology of interactions in digital arts, but also laying new topics for philosophical foundation of virtual knowledge.

• Professor Neil McDonnell
• Dr Robert Cowan

Master Student Travel Funds (kr2000), Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, 2022

Anders Wall Scholarship (kr200000), top 2% of international students, Uppsala University, 2021

“Memory, forgetting and sharedness: aesthetic dilemma in the digital age”

- The Third Aesthetic Conference for Young Scholars, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Nov. 2023

- NordPhil 2022, Tampere University, Finland, Sep. 2022

“The Interaction in Videogame Playing Experiences”

- NordPhil 2023, Tartu University, Estonia, Sep 2023

“Optimistic views on extended memory from aesthetic perspective”

- Master Seminar, Uppsala University, Sweden, Sep. 2022

“Action-centered interactivity in videogame Playing”

- 22nd International Congress of Aesthetics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Jul 2023 (Accepted)