Fiona Macpherson FRSE MAE (born 19 October 1971) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience.
[4] She is a trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, having been appointed by the British prime minister for a five-year term from 1 October 2014[5] and reappointed for five years in 2019.
[6] Macpherson's research interests include the nature of consciousness, perception, introspection, imagination and the metaphysics of mind.
She has appeared on numerous radio programmes, including on BBC Radio 4 discussing human senses and perception[7] and on All In The Mind discussing her collaborative project Dreamachine She is a regular guest on the podcast Philosophy Takes On The News.
She stated that "I think that it is even all right to only invite men as speakers to some events, if that is appropriate because of research that you want to hear about and the theme of the conference".