Fiona Macpherson's Research Page
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Books
Dorsch, F., Macpherson, F. and Nida-Rumelin, M. (eds.) Phenomenal Presence, Oxford University Press.
Macpherson, F. and Platchais, D. (forthcoming) (eds.) Hallucination, MIT Press.
Macpherson, F. and Platchais, D. (forthcoming) (eds.) Representationalism, MIT Press.
Macpherson, F. (ed.) The Senses: Classic and Contemprary Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Download the introductory essay "Individuating the Senses" by Macpherson.
Read the review of the book in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews by Peter W. Ross.
The book was commented on by Mohan Matthen in the New APPS blog.
Macpherson, F. and Hawley, K. (2011) (eds.) The Admissible Contents of Experience, Wiley-Blackwell.
Also appearing (without the introductory essay) as a special edition of The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 236, July 2009.
Haddock, A. and Macpherson, F. (2008) (eds.) Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, Oxford University Press.
Reprinted in paperback in July 2011.
Download the introductory essay "Introduction: Varieties of Disjunctivism " by Haddock and Macpherson.
The whole book is available online at Oxford Scholarship Online.
Read the review of the book in Mind by Kieran Setiya.
Read the review of the book in the Times Literary Supplement by Tim Crane.
Read the review of the book in the European Journal of Philosophy by Fabian Dorsch.
Papers
Macpherson, F. (forthcoming) "Phenomenal 'Presence as Absence' in Visual Experience", in Phenomenal Presence, edited by F. Dorsch, F. Macpherson and M. Nida-Rumelin, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Macpherson, F. (forthcoming) "The Space of Sensory Modalities", in Perception and Its Modalities, D. Stokes, S. Biggs and M. Matthen (eds.), Oxford University Press.
Macpherson, F. (forthcoming) "Hallucination: An Introduction", in Hallucination, edited by F. Macpherson and D. Platchais, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Macpherson, F. and Platchais, D. (forthcoming) "Representationalism: An Introduction" in F. Macpherson and D. Platchias (eds.) Representationalism, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Macpherson, F. (2012) "Cognitive Penetration of Colour Experience: Rethinking the Issue in Light of an Indirect Mechanism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 84 (1): 24-62.
Macpherson, F (2011) "Cross-Modal Experiences", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume CXI, part 3, pp. 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, Vol. 153, No. 1, 123-142.
Macpherson F. (2010) "A Disjunctive Theory of Introspection: A Reflection on Zombies and Anton's Syndrome", Philosophical Issues, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 226-265.
Macpherson, F. (20010) "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, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 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, Vol. 13, No. 10-11, pp. 72-89.
Macpherson, F. (2005) "Colour Inversion Problems for Representationalism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 127-152.
Macpherson, F. (2003) "Novel Colours and the Content of Experience", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 84, No. 1, pp. 43-66.
Macpherson, F. (2002) "The Power of Natural Selection", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 9, No. 8, pp. 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), Volume 3, No. 2, pp. 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).
Book Reviews
Macpherson, F. (2004) review of A. D. Smith The Problem of Perception, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002) in Philosophical Books, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 256-257.
Macpherson, F. (2003) review of M. Tye Consciousness, Color and Content, (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000) in Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 213, pp. 619-621.
Macpherson, F. (1999) review of P. Jacob What Minds Can Do: Intentionality in a Non-Intentional World in Philosophical Books, Vol. 40, No.3, pp. 184-185.
Work in Progress
I am working on the nature of perception, imagination, introspection, consciousness, representationalism, the admissible contents of experience, delusions, visual agnosia, cognitive penetration, the phenomenally present as absent, the senses and sensory substitution.
Online Bibliography
PhD Thesis
Macpherson, F (2000) Representational Theories of Phenomenal Character, University of Stirling, supervised by Alan Millar and José Luis Bermúdez.