Fiona Macpherson - Selected Publications#

Papers:

Beauté, R., Schwartzman, D. J., Dumas, G., Crook, J. Macpherson, F., Barrett, A. and Seth A. K. (forthcoming) ”Mapping of subjective account into interpreted clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applies to stroboscopically phenomenology”, Neuroscience of Consciousness.

Veitch, N., Donald, C., Judge, A., Carman, C., Scott, P., Taylor, S., Marks, L., Edmond, A., Kirkwood, N., McDonnell, N., and Macpherson F. (2025) "Experiential learning through virtual reality by-proxy", Virtual Reality, 29:38, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-025-01106-3

Macpherson, F. (2024) “Perception in Dreams: A Guide for Dream Engineers, a Reflection on the Role of Memory in Sensory States, and a New Counterexample to Hume’s Account of the Imagination”, in D. Gregory & K. Michaelian (eds.) Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68204-9_16

Colburn, B., Macpherson, F., Brown, D., Fearnley, L., Hodgson, C., and McDonnell, N (2024) "Policy and Practice Recommendations for Augmented and Mixed Reality", Enlighten, https://doi.org/10.36399/gla.pubs.326686

MacKisack, M., Aldworth, S., Macpherson, F., Onians, J., Winlove, C. & Zeman, A. (2022) “Plural Imagination: Diversity in Mind and Making”, Art Journal, 81(3): 70-87, https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2022.2110444

Monzel M., Mitchell D., Macpherson F., Pearson J. and Zeman A. (Preprint April 2022) 'Proposal for a consistent definition of aphantasia and hyperphantasia: A response to Lambert and Sibley (2022) and Simner and Dance (2022)', Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.04.003

Monzel M., Mitchell D., Macpherson F., Pearson J. and Zeman A. (Preprint February 2022) 'Aphantasia, dysikonesia, anauralia: call for a single term for the lack of mental imagery – Commentary on Dance et al. (2021) and Hinwar and Lambert (2021)', Cortex, doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.02.002

Brown, D. and Macpherson, F. (2021) ‘Introduction to the Philosophy of Colour’, in D. Brown and F. Macpherson (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour, London: Routledge.

Macpherson, F. (2021) ‘Novel Colour Experiences and Their Implications’, in D. Brown and F. Macpherson (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour, London: Routledge.

Macpherson, F. (2018) 'What Is It Like to Have Visual Imagery?', in S. Aldworth and M. MacKisack (eds.) Extreme Imagination: Inside the Eye's Mind, London: University of Exeter.

Macpherson, F. (2018) ‘Sensory Substitution and Augmentation: An Introduction’ in F. Macpherson (ed.) Sensory Substitution and Augmentation, Proceedings of the British Academy Series, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Howes, D., Clarke, E., Macpherson, F., Best, B. and Cox, R. (2018) "Sensing Art and Artifacts: Explorations in Sensory Museology", The Senses and Society, 13 (3): 317-334. doi:10.1080/17458927.2018.1516024

Macpherson, F. (2018) 'Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory: An Overview', in Dorsch, F. and Macpherson, F. (eds.) Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory, Oxford University Press.

Wilson, K. and Macpherson, F. (2018) ‘The Senses’, in D. Pritchard (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0368.

Winlove, C., Milton, F., Ranson, J., Fulford, J., MacKisack, M., Macpherson, F. and Zeman, A. (2018), “The neural correlates of visual imagery: a co-ordinate-based meta-analysis”, Cortex, 105: 4-25, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.014.

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 Light of New Cases", Philosophical Issues, 26: 263 - 296.

MacKisack, M., Aldworth, S., Macpherson, F., Onians, J., Winlove, C., and Zeman, A. (2016) "On picturing a candle: the prehistory of imagery science", Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 00515.

Macpherson, F (2015) "The Structure of Experience, the Nature of the Visual, and Type 2 Blindsight", Consciousness and Cognition, 32:104 - 128.

Macpherson, F. (2015) "Cognitive Penetration and Nonconceptual Content", in J. Zeimbekis and A. Raftopoulos (eds.) The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: New Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press.

Macpherson, F. (2015) "Cognitive Penetration and Predictive Coding: A Commentary on Lupyan‌", Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 6(4): 571-584.

Macpherson, F. (2014) "Is the Sense-Data Theory a Representationalist Theory?", Ratio, 27(4): 369-392. Also to be published in J. Stazicker (2015) (ed.) The Structure of Perceptual Experience, Wiley.

Macpherson, F. (2014) "The Space of Sensory Modalities", in Perception and Its Modalities, D. Stokes, S. Biggs and M. Matthen (eds.), Oxford University Press.

Macpherson, F. (2013) "The Philosophy and Psychology of Hallucination: An Introduction", in Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, edited by F. Macpherson and D. Platchais, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Macpherson, F. (2013) "Can Science Tell Us That We Smell?", online symposium on the Brains Blog on Louise Richardson’s “Flavour, Taste, and Smell” (Mind & Language, 28(3): 322-341).

Macpherson, F. (2012) "Cognitive Penetration of Colour Experience: Rethinking the Issue in Light of an Indirect Mechanism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 84(1): 24-62.

Macpherson, F. (2011) "Cross-Modal Experiences", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 111(3): 429-468.

Macpherson, F. (2011) "Individuating the Senses", in her (ed.) The Senses: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Oxford University Press.

Macpherson, F. (2011) "The Admissible Contents of Experience", in K. Hawley and F. Macpherson (eds.) The Admissible Contents of Experience, Wiley-Blackwell.

Macpherson, F. (2011) "Taxonomising the Senses", Philosophical Studies, 153(1): 123-142.

Macpherson F. (2010) "A Disjunctive Theory of Introspection: A Reflection on Zombies and Anton's Syndrome", Philosophical Issues, 20(1): 226-265. Reprinted in Manidipa Sen (ed.) Self-Knowledge and Agency, New Delhi: Decent Books, 2012: 39-98.

Macpherson, F. (2010) "Impossible Figures", in E. B. Goldstein (ed.) the SAGE Encyclopedia of Perception, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Macpherson, F. (2009) "‌Perception, Philosophical Perspectives", in The Oxford Companion to Consciousness,T. Bayne, A. Cleeremans and P. Wilken (eds), Oxford University Press.

Haddock, A. and Macpherson, F. (2008) "Introduction: Varieties of Disjunctivism" in our Disjunctivism: Perception, Action Knowledge, Oxford University Press.

Macpherson, F. (2007) "Synaesthesia, Functionalism and Phenomenology", in Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection , Series: Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 4, Mario de Caro, Francesco Ferretti and Massimo Marraffa (eds.), Dordrecht: Kleuwer, pp. 65-80.

Macpherson, F. (2006) "Ambiguous Figures and the Content of Experience", Noûs, 40(1): 82-117.

Macpherson, F. (2006) "Property Dualism and the Merits of Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem: A Reply to Strawson", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(10-11): 72-89.

Macpherson, F. (2005) "Colour Inversion Problems for Representationalism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 70(1): 127-152.

Macpherson, F. (2003) "Novel Colours and the Content of Experience", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 84(1): 43-66.

Macpherson, F. (2002) "The Power of Natural Selection", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9(8): 30-35. Macpherson, F. (1999) "Perfect Pitch and the Implicit/Explicit Distinction", Anthropology and Philosophy,(Philosophical Approaches to Consciousness, Monograph Issue, edited by Mariano Bianca and Luca Malatesti), 3(2): 89-101.

Bermudez, J. L. and Macpherson, F. (1999) "Nonconceptual Content and the Nature of Perceptual Experience", The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Issue 6, (http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1998/contents.html).

Edited Volumes:

Brown, D. and Macpherson, F. (Eds.) (2018 In Press) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge. ISBN 9780415743037

Macpherson, F. and Dorsch, F. (Eds.) (2018) Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198717881

Dorsch, F. and Macpherson, F. (Eds.) (2018) Phenomenal Presence. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199666416
Macpherson, F. (Ed.) (2018) Sensory Substitution and Augmentation. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy series. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Macpherson, F. and Platchias, D. (Eds.) (2013) Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA. ISBN 9780262019200

Hawley, K. and Macpherson, F. (Eds.) (2011) The Admissible Contents of Experience. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444333350

Macpherson, F. (Ed.) (2011) The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives. Series: Philosophy of mind. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780195385960

Haddock, A. and Macpherson, F. (Eds.) (2008) Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199231546