PROFESSOR--Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception René Jagnow completed his Master’s degree at Humboldt University in Berlin in 1996 and received his Ph.D. from McGill University in Montréal in 2003. Before coming to UGA in 2006, he taught at Middlebury College in Vermont. Dr. Jagnow’s research focuses on the philosophy of perception and aesthetics. In the philosophy of perception, he is particularly interested in the relation between the phenomenology of perceptual experience and its representational content. In aesthetics, his research focuses on the nature of depiction and pictorial experience. More recently, he has been exploring how paintings and photographs can elicit experiences of atmospheres. In his seminars, he often covers topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, including the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and world. He has also taught seminars on Wittgenstein, Husserl, pictorial representation, and memory. Research Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Perception Aesthetics Phenomenology Selected Publications Selected Publications: "Polaroid Memories: Photographic Mediums and the Aesthetic Character of Episodic Memories," in Saying the Unsayable: Essays and Meditations on the Ineffability of Aesthetic Experiences, eds. Christian Beck and John Venecek, Springer (forthcoming). "Representationalism and the Spatial Representational Contents of Afterimage Experiences," Analytic Philosophy, 2026: 67(3), 238-248. "Multisensory Experience of Paintings," Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, 2025: 62(1), 17-35. "Experiencing Atmospheres in Paintings," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2024: 82(1), 18–35. "The Particularity of Photographic Experience," Theoria, 2023: 89(2), 216– 231. "Twofold Pictorial Experience," Erkenntnis, 2021: 86, 853-874. "Representationalism, Double Vision, and Afterimages: A Response to Işık Sarıhan," Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2020: 20(3), 435-451. "Depicting Depictions," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2017: 98(S1), 453-479. "Can We See Natural Kind Properties?" Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Special Issue on the Philosophy of Mind, 2015: 44 (2), 178-205. "Facts in Ethical Space: Wittgenstein on the Waxing and Waning of the World," in Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, vol. 22, eds. Sonja Rinofer-Kreidl and Harald Wiltsche (Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2014), 141-43. "Color Discrimination and Monitoring Theories of Consciousness," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2012: 90 (1), 57-74. "Representationalism and the Perspectival Character of Perceptual Experience," Philosophical Studies, 2012: 157 (2), 227-249. "Ambiguous Figures and the Spatial Contents of Perceptual Experience: A Defense of Representationalism," Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2011: 10 (1), 325-346. "Shadow-Experiences and the Phenomenal Complexity of Color," dialectica, 2010: 64 (2), 187-212 "How Representationalism Can Account for the Phenomenal Significance of Illumination," Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2009: 8 (4), 551-572. "Disappearing Appearances: On the Enactive Approach to Spatial Perceptual Content," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2008: 46 (1), 45-67. "Critical Essay of Lisa Shabel’s book Mathematics in Kant’s Critical Philosophy. Reflections on Mathematical Practice," Philosophia Mathematica, 2007: 15 (3), 366-386 (invited). "Edmund Husserl on the Applicability of Formal Geometry," Intuition and the Axiomatic Method, eds. Emily Carson and Renate Huber (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), 67-85. "Carnap, Husserl, Euclid, and the Idea of a Material Geometry," in Husserl and Stein, eds. Richard Feist and William Sweet (Washington, DC: CRVP Press, 2003), 57-87. Courses Taught Courses Regularly Taught: PHIL 2500 PHIL/ARTI/PSYC 3550 PHIL 4310/6310 PHIL 8310 PHIL 8010
