Projects and collaborations

Current research projects and collaborations at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience.

New Foundations of the Structure of Perception

Professor Macpherson awarded RSE grant

For New Foundations of the Structure of Perception with Johns Hopkins University

SENSOR: Sensory Engineering

SENSOR: Sensory Engineering

SENSOR: Sensory Engineering

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World of Illusion Dublin

Consulting for the Dublin World of Illusion

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Dreamachine

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Augmented Reality: Ethics, Perception, Metaphysics

A Royal Society of Edinburgh funded research network.

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Twist Museum

Consulting for the Twist Museum of Illusion in London

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The Philosophy of Virtual and Augmented Reality

An exploration of the technological revolution in VR/AR for knowledge exchange, philosophical research, and teaching.

Previous projects and collaborations

Previously completed projects at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience.

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Cupboard Games

Consulting and research collaboration with computer games company

The Eye’s Mind

The Eye’s Mind

A study of the neural basis of visual imagination and its role in culture in collaboration with the University of Exeter.

Suffering and Autonomy

An investigation into the theoretical and practical importance of the ways that suffering both threatens and augments autonomy at the end of life.

Network for Sensory Research

An international network conducting interdisciplinary research on perception.

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Experience and Reason Group

Brings together research on rational motivation and justification of mental attitudes.

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Thought and Sense

Investigating the interface between perception and cognition in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Mind, Oslo.

Understanding the Senses

An interdisciplinary investigation into the mechanisms, affective dimensions, and subjective experiences of the senses of sight and touch.

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Synchronising the Senses

An interdisciplinary investigation of the temporal structure of experience and its implications for the metaphysics of perception.

Between a Thing and a Thought, artwork by Susan Aldworth

Sense-Data: Phenomenology and Metaphysics

Investigating the capacity of sense-datum theory to account for the phenomenology of our experiences of space, time and motion.

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Rethinking the Senses

Uniting the philosophy and neuroscience of perception.

Glasgow Emergence Project

An interdisciplinary research initiative involving collaboration between philosophers and physicists hosted by the University of Durham.

Value of Suffering Project

An interdisciplinary investigation of the nature, meaning, and role of affective experience.

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The Pain Project

An international, interdisciplinary research project focusing on relations among pain, perception, and emotion.

Nature of Taste Project

A multi-institutional collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy, New York University.