Professor Christopher Peacocke is a 2024-25 Senior Faculty Heyman Center Fellow

Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts & Sciences, the Heyman Center Fellowships provide four junior and four senior Columbia faculty. During his time as a Heyman Centre Fellow, Prof. Peacocke plans to complete an interdisciplinary book presenting a theory of the nature of the perception of Western music. The theory aims to explain what it is for such musical experience to have the rich emotional and other content it is capable of possessing. He is the recipient of the Jean Nicod Prize for 2024, and the material on music perception is based on the lectures associated with the Prize.