Fiona Macpherson

Fiona Macpherson FRSE MAE (born 19 October 1971) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017[1] and a member of Academia Europaea in 2018.[2]

Fiona Macpherson FRSE MAE
Born	19 October 1971
Nationality	Scottish
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Glasgow University of St Andrews University of Stirling
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Institutions	Girton College, Cambridge University of Glasgow

Biography

She studied at the University of Glasgow, the University of St Andrews and the University of Stirling. She has been a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University and a Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. Macpherson has held visiting positions at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Umeå University and the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.[3] She is a member of the governing council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).[4] She is a trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, having been appointed by the British prime minister for a five-year term from 1 October 2014[5] and reappointed for five years in 2019.[3] She was appointed to the AHRC Creative Industries Advisory Group in 2019. Macpherson was president of the Scots Philosophical Association from December 2015 to December 2016.[3] She is currently president of the British Philosophical Association.[6]

Research

Macpherson's research interests include the nature of consciousness, perception, introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind.[7] Amongst her publications, she is the co-editor of Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, The Admissible Contents of Experience, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2011,[3] editor of The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives, published by Oxford University Press in 2011,[8][9] co-editor of Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, published by MIT Press in 2013,[10][11] and co-editor of Phenomenal Presence and Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory and editor of Sensory Substitution and Augmentation, all published by Oxford University Press in 2018.[3] She has appeared on numerous radio programmes, including on BBC Radio 4 discussing human senses and perception.[7]

Notable remarks

In relation to debates about the issue of all-male panels at academic conferences, Macpherson has warned against tokenism, noting that she had herself organised an all-male panel, when the prominent women she invited were unavailable. She stated that "I think that it is even all right to only invite men as speakers to some events, if that is appropriate because of research that you want to hear about and the theme of the conference".[12]

References

1. "RSE Welcomes 60 New Fellows" (Press release). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
2. "Academia Europaea honour for UofG academics". University of Glasgow. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
3. "Fiona Macpherson: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). March 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
4. "Professor Fiona Macpherson to sit on Arts and Humanities Research Council". University of Glasgow. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
5. "Kennedy Memorial Trust appointments". Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
6. "About us". British Philosophical Association. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
7. "An Image of Sound". BBC Radio 4. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
8. "The Senses". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
9. Ross, Peter W. (24 August 2011). "The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
10. "Hallucination". The MIT Press. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
11. Sauerbrey, Anna (2 October 2013). "Die Welt in uns". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 17 July 2016.
12. Blaze Carlson, Kathryn (10 August 2012). "Philosophy gender war sparked by call for larger role for women". National Post. Retrieved 17 July 2016.

External links

• University of Glasgow profile page