Fiona Macpherson - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- PhD in Philosophy, University of Stirling, 2000
- Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, on a Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, 1998 - 1999
- MLitt in Philosophy with Distinction in the Dissertation, University Of St. Andrews, 1995
- MA in Philosophy with 1st Class Honours, University of Glasgow, 1993
Visiting Positions:
- Visiting Professor, Institut Jean-Nicod & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, March - April 2019
- Visiting Professor, University of Kentucky, September 2017 & 2018
- Visiting Faculty Member, Cornell, USA, June 2016
- Visiting Professor, Trnava University, Slovakia, October 2015
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, January – April 2013
- Visiting Professor, Umeå University, Sweden, October 2011
Publications:
Author of over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles or papers in major edited collections on the nature of the mind, perception and consciousness.
Editor/co-editor of 8 edited volumes on perception (with major publishers: Oxford, MIT, Routledge).
Top 4 publications since 2014:
Macpherson, F. (2017) ‘The Relationship Between Cognitive Penetration and Predictive Coding’, Consciousness and Cognition, 47: 6-16.
Macpherson, F. and Batty, C. (2016) ‘Redefining Illusion and Hallucination in the Light of New Cases’, Philosophical Issues, 26: 263 - 296.
Macpherson, F. (2015) ‘Structural Features of Experience, the Nature of the Visual and Type Two Blindsight’, Consciousness and Cognition, 32: 104-128.
Macpherson, F. (2014) ‘The Space of Sensory Modalities’, in Perception and Its Modalities, D. Stokes, S. Biggs and M. Matthen (eds.), Oxford University Press.
