Fiona Macpherson PhD

Professor Fiona Macpherson gained an MA from the University of Glasgow, an MLitt at the University of St Andrews, and a PhD from the University of Stirling. She was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, a teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews, and a Rosamund Chambers Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.

She joined the Department of Philosophy at Glasgow in 2004 as a lecturer and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (which she founded), became a Senior lecturer in 2008, and a Professor of Philosophy in 2011. She was Head of Philosophy from 2014 - 2017 and Deputy Head of the School of Humanities from January - August 2017.

While a faculty member at Glasgow, she has spent time as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness, RSS, Australian National University, and as a Visiting Professor at Umea University, Sweden; the Institute of Philosophy, University of London; the University of Trnava, Slovakia; the University of Kentucky, USA; and at the Institut Jean Nicod (funded by the Ecole des Hautes études en sciences Sociales (EHESS)). She received a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship in September 2021.

She was President of the Scots Philosophical Association (December 2015-2016), a member of the Mind Association Executive Committee (2007 – 2014), and a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2011 – 2014). She became President of the British Philosophical Association in January 2019.

She serves on the editorial boards of The Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) and has previously served on the board of Theoria. She was a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2014-2018 and then re-elected from 2018 - 2021, and again from 2021 - 2023. In addition, she became a Member of the UKRI Creative Industries Advisory Group in 2019 and a Member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Panel College in 2018.

She is a trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust 2014 - the present. She was honoured to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017, and elected member of Academia Europaea 2018. She is a vegan of over 25 years standing and a Partick Thistle Fan. According to her Who's Who profile, she enjoys blethering and getting stotious with friends.