Fiona Macpherson

Fiona Macpherson (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 and a member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

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. 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 and reappointed for five years in 2019. She is currently president of the British Philosophical Association.

Research Macpherson's research interests include the nature of consciousness, perception, introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind. 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, co-editor of Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, published by MIT Press in 2013, 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.