School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Philosophy Grants and Projects



Dr Leuenberger awarded AHRC Early Career Fellowship

Dr Leuenberger has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship to work on a project entitled "The Contingency of Contingency", 1 September 2012-31 May 2013.

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Dr Leuenberger awarded a Carnegie Trust grant.

Dr Leuenberger has been awarded a Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland research grant, for a visit at eidos (University of Geneva) in the summer of 2012 to work on a project entitled "Grounds without Supplements".

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Dr Colburn will be visiting professor in Spring 2013

Ben Colburn will be visiting professor in Spring 2013 at the Department of Political Science of LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.

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Professor Macpherson to become Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Fiona Macpherson will become Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London from January - April 2013.

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Professor Macpherson awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme Grant

Fiona Macpherson has been awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme Grant for Dr Derek Brown of Brandon University, Canada to visit the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience in Autumn 2012.

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Professor Macpherson awarded AHRC Fellowship

Fiona Macpherson has been awarded an AHRC Fellowship for 2012-13 to work on a project entitled Perception, Imagination, and the Structure of Consciousness.

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Philosophy graduate students secure grants for Graduate Conference on The Problems of Philosophy

Graduate students in Philosophy, working with Professor Fiona Macpherson, have secured funding from a variety of sources to run the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience Graduate Conference on the Problems of Philosophy.

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Professor Macpherson and the CSPE win SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for the Network for Sensory Research

Fiona Macpherson and the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience have won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development grant for the Network for Sensory Research.

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Dr Bain and Dr Brady awarded Templeton Foundation Grant to study pain

David Bain and Michael Brady have been awarded a Templeton Foundation Grant of £107,000 for an interdisciplinary research project, The Nature of Pain: Hedonic Tone, Motivation, and Non-Human Animals.

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Professor Macpherson secures grants for the Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory Conference

Fiona Macpherson has secured funding from a variety of sources to run the conference ‘Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory’, 6 - 9 September 2011.

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Philosophy graduate students secure grants for Graduate Conference on the Metaphysics of Mind

Graduate students in Philosophy, working with Professor Fiona Macpherson, have secured funding from a variety of sources to run the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience Graduate Conference on the Metaphysics of Mind.

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Professor Macpherson secures grants for the Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision Workshop

Fiona Macpherson has secured funding from a variety of sources to run the workshop ‘Cognitive and Cross-Modal Effects on Vision’, 26 -27 March 2011.

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Abstracta in Concreta Research Network

The Abstracta in Concreta interdisciplinary research network provides a vital link between university based academics with interests in the philosophical and religious dimensions of material culture and their colleagues in the museum sector.

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