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Simon Prosser is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he has been a faculty member since 2002. He is affiliated with the Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology within the School of Philosophical & Anthropological Studies. His work primarily focuses on the intersection of philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, and metaphysics, with particular emphasis on conscious experience, temporal thought, and egocentric representation.
Prosser's educational background includes physics studies at the University of Birmingham followed by philosophical training at the University of Warwick, where he completed his PhD. During his doctoral studies, he spent a year at CREA in Paris (CNRS/École Polytechnique).
His research centers on conscious experience and its relationship to perception, with a current book project provisionally titled The Perspective of Consciousness. He argues that defending physicalism about consciousness requires a new understanding of first-person perspective derived from the perspectival nature of perception. His other major research areas include temporal thought and experience, egocentric thought (particularly 'essential indexicals' and immunity to error through misidentification), and the nature of concepts/modes of presentation. He has also explored emergent properties and 'new Zeno' phenomena, though this remains a minor interest.
Analysis of Prosser's recent publications reveals a consistent focus on the philosophy of time, consciousness, and representation. His work increasingly bridges philosophy with cognitive science and neuroscience, as seen in his 2023 commentary on 'Physical Time within Human Time' in Frontiers in Psychology. The thematic evolution shows progression from foundational work on time perception toward more integrated approaches examining consciousness, mental representation, and their temporal dimensions.
- Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (2023-2024) for 'Conscious Experience: A Defence of External World Functionalism'
Prosser has supervised 10 doctoral students and is currently leading a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project. His work has appeared in top philosophy journals including Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Mind & Language. He has also edited significant collections such as Immunity to Error Through Misidentification: New Essays (2012) and published the monograph Experiencing Time (2016). His research output demonstrates sustained engagement with fundamental questions about consciousness, time, and representation across two decades.
While primarily focused on his philosophical research, Prosser maintains a serious interest in landscape photography, with his work displayed in the philosophy department and on the university website. This creative pursuit appears to complement his academic interests in perception and spatial experience.
