Fiona Macpherson#
| Membership Number: | 4700 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/fionamacpherson |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-3309 |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ProfMacpherson |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/f.macpherson |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Professor of Philosophy ; Lecturer 2004 – 2008 then Senior Lecturer 2008 – 2011
- 2005 - 2006 and 2008 - 2009 Research Fellow, Centre for Consciousness, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
- 2002 - 2004 Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow in Philosophy, Girton College, University of Cambridge (curtailed by one year to take up the position at Glasgow)
- 2000 - 2002 Teaching Fellow, Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews (curtailed by one year to take up the position at Cambridge)
- 1997 - 1998 & 1999 - 2000 (part-time) Research Assistant, Consciousness in the Natural World Project, University of Stirling
Fields of Scholarship
- Psychology
- Philosophy
- Consciousness
- Perception
- Cognitive science
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- 2018 - 2021 PI on Innovate UK grant of £911,713 for Project Mobius to work with VR company Soluis to produce VR teaching apps and an underlying platform that gathers data about use
- 2015 - 2016 President of the Scots Philosophical Association
- 2014 - 2018 Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2014 - 2018; re-appointed to the new Arts and Humanities Research Council 2018 - 2021
- 2014 Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust
- 1992 Thomas Holt Prize for Logic from the University of Glasgow
- 1993 Edward Caird Medal for Moral Philosophy from the University of Glasgow
- 1993 MacLagan Prize for Moral Philosophy from the University of Glasgow
