Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience

Projects and Collaborations

 

foot stepping on tacksPain Project

‌Principal Investigators: David Bain and Michael Brady
Post-Doc: Jennifer Corns
Additional Project Members: Frederique de Vignement (Institute Jean Nicod , Paris), Siri Leknes (Oslo), Jacky Reid, Marion Scott, and Lesley Wiseman-Orr (Pain and Welfare group, University of Glasgow)

The Value of Suffering: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Nature, Meaning, and Role of Affective Experience

September 2013 - September 2016

NEWS: The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience is delighted to announce that principal investigators Dr David Bain and Dr Michael Brady have received a second grant from the John Templeton Foundation for the study of pain. The funding of £362,372 will support the project entitled “The Value of Suffering: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Nature, Meaning, and Role of Affective Experience”, which will start in September 2013. In addition to a series of interdisciplinary workshops and conferences, the grant will be used to support their post-doc, Jennifer Corns, and to fund a PhD position. Details of the latter will be announced in due course.

The Nature of Pain: Hedonic Tone, Motivation, and Non-Human Animals

January 2012 – June 2013

Funding: The Templeton Foundation

Further details available at the dedicated Pain Project Website.

 

censes logoCenSes: Centre for the Study of the Senses

2009 – present

The Centre is affiliated to, and Fiona Macpherson is a director of, CenSes: Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. CenSes runs a series of talks, workshops and conferences covering recent philosophical and neuroscientific research on the nature of our sensory systems, covering aspects such as, but not limited to, multisensory integration and cross-modal influences, our sense of agency and bodily ownership, the objects of perception, sensory deficits, sensory extensions and sensory substitutions, the cognitive penetrability and individuation of the senses. A workshop was held at Glasgow, as part of the series, on Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision.

Funding: Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

We have just won a 1.9 million pound grant for the project Re-Thinking the Senses, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Further details available at the dedicated CenSes Website.

 

 

network for sensory research logoNetwork for Sensory Research

2009 - present

The Centre is one of the partners of the new Network for Sensory Research: a research partnership between the Departments of Philosophy at Toronto (Principal Investigator: Mohan Matthen), Harvard (Co-Investigator: Susanna Siegel), MIT (Co-Investigator: Alex Byrne), the Centre for the Study of the Senses of the Institute of Philosophy (Co-Investigator: Barry Smith), and the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow (Co-Investigator: Fiona Macpherson).

Funding: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Further details abvailable at the dedicated Network for Sensory Research Website.

 

EXRE logoEXRE: Centre for Research of Mind and Normativity

2008 – present

‌The Centre is one of the collaborators on the EXRE (Experience and Reason) Group, University of Fribourg, which has held a series of workshops and conferences which core and affiliate members of the CSPE have attended and helped organise, including the Phenomenal Presence conference, Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination conference, and the Normative Significance of Consciousness conference.

Funding: University of Fribourg and various confence funding.

Further details available at the EXRE website.

 

taste logoNature of Taste Project

2009 - present

Fiona Macpherson is a member of this project run by the Institute of Philsophy at New York University.

Further details available at the Nature of Taste Project website.