Dr Mette Leonard Høeg

Mette Leonard Høeg, PhD, is a Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Interacting Minds Centre, University of Aarhus, an academic visitor at the Uehiro Oxford Institute and associated fellow at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford. With an interdisciplinary background in literature, narrative theory and philosophy, her work currently focuses on the ethical and existential dimensions of modern consciousness research, with a special interest in the potential of psychedelics for enhancement of morality and wellbeing. She is the author of Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth Century Literature and Literary Theory (Routledge, 2022). Her paper “The Value of Literature for Consciousness Research and Ethics” was published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. She is co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of Neuroethics based on the international conference she convened at the University of Oxford in 2023: Consciousness. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. She has also published extensively on neurophilosophical and -existential issues in various news and public media, magazines and blog posts.