Dr Louise F Richardson

Qualifications

BA(Hons); University of Durham.
MA; University of Durham.
PhD; University of Warwick.

Role or position

Junior Research Fellow

E-mail address

louise.richardson2@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
louise.richardson2@chch.ox.ac.uk

Academic background

I completed my undergraduate studies and a Masters degree in Philosophy at the University of Durham. I was awarded my PhD from the University of Warwick in the summer of 2009. My thesis title was ‘What is distinctive about the senses?’ and my supervisors were Christoph Hoerl and Matthew Soteriou.

Research Interests

My research is focussed on questions about the five familiar perceptual senses— seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. In particular, I am concerned with differences and similarities in the conscious character of experience in the different modalities; what ought to be thought of as the objects of perception in each modality (and how we should decide); the sorts of relations that hold between the modalities, and how we ought to construe psychologists’ (and philosophers’) claims that we have senses other than the familiar five.

Publications include

'Seeing Empty Space', Forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00341.x)

Hobbies

Links

Research Seminar ‘Some Varieties of Perception’ (with Dr Ian Phillips):
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1129/varieties.pdf