Harvard University Department of Philosophy: Professor Susanna Siegel

Susanna Siegel received her PhD in 2000 from Cornell University. Her main interests are in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. She is working on a book about the contents of visual perceptual experience. Some questions addressed in her papers include:

What is the nature of perceptual experience? What kind of information does it convey to perceivers?
How does perception enable us to have thoughts about the external world?
What is the role of perception in uses of demonstrative expressions, such as "this" and "that fish" (and more generally, expressions of the form "that F")?

Recent publications include:

"The Contents of Perception", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal", Philosophical Studies 120 (2004)
"Which Properties are Represented in Perception?" in T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne, Perceptual Experience (Oxford University Press, 2006)
"The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference," Philosophers' Imprint (2002)
"Subject and Object in the Contents of Visual Experience," Philosophical Review 115:3
"How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?", forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy
"Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness," forthcoming in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research
"Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives," Noûs, March 2006, vol 40
"The Phenomenology of Efficacy", forthcoming in Philosophical Topics

Copies of these papers and others can be found on Prof Siegel's Web site .

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