Fiona Macpherson

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 member of the governing council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).{{cite news|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/latestnews/headline_576406_en.html|title=Professor Fiona Macpherson to sit on Arts and Humanities Research Council|publisher=University of Glasgow|date=23 March 2018|accessdate=27 April 2019}} 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{{cite news|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/kennedy-memorial-trust-appointments--2|title=Kennedy Memorial Trust appointments|publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street|date=1 October 2014|accessdate=12 April 2019}} and reappointed for five years in 2019. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_179590_en.pdf|title=Fiona Macpherson: Curriculum Vitae|date=March 2019|accessdate=6 June 2019}} She is currently president of the British Philosophical Association.{{cite web|url=https://bpa.ac.uk/about|title=About us|publisher=British Philosophical Association|accessdate=11 April 2019}}

Macpherson's research interests include the nature of consciousness, perception, introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051w066|title=An Image of Sound|publisher=BBC Radio 4|date=25 March 2016|accessdate=17 July 2016}} 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, editor of The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives, published by Oxford University Press in 2011,{{cite web|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-senses-9780195385960?cc=gb&lang=en&|title=The Senses|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=17 July 2016}}{{cite journal|url=http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25597-the-senses-classic-and-contemporary-philosophical-perspectives/|title=The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives|first=Peter W.|last=Ross|journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews|date=24 August 2011}} co-editor of Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, published by MIT Press in 2013,{{cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hallucination|title=Hallucination|publisher=The MIT Press|accessdate=17 July 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/was-wissen-schafft-die-welt-in-uns/8875054.html|title=Die Welt in uns|work=Der Tagesspiegel|first=Anna|last=Sauerbrey|date=2 October 2013|accessdate=17 July 2016|language=DE}} 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. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour, published by Routledge in 2021. She has appeared on numerous radio programmes, including on BBC Radio 4 discussing human senses and perception and on [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001745l All In The Mind] discussing her collaborative project [https://dreamachine.world/ Dreamachine] She is a regular guest on the podcast [https://stkirchin.podbean.com/ Philosophy Takes On The News].

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".{{cite news|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/philosophy-gender-war-sparked-by-call-for-larger-role-for-women|title=Philosophy gender war sparked by call for larger role for women|first=Kathryn|last=Blaze Carlson|work=National Post|date=10 August 2012|accessdate=17 July 2016}}

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