# Susanna Siegel Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy ![susanna siegel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4436/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/phildept/files/faculty_siegel.jpg?itok=ncL5tjLG) location\_on Emerson 317 smartphone [617-495-1884](tel:617-495-1884) email laptop\_windows [Personal website](https://www.susannasiegel.net/) **Research Interests:** Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Political Philosophy Susanna Siegel received her PhD from Cornell University. Her books *The Contents of Visual Experience* (2010) and *The Rationality of Perception* (2017) were both published by Oxford University Press. Other publications include: - “The Phenomenal Public” Political Philosophy, Issue 1, Volume 1. 2024 - “Wandering Inquiry” – Forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy (2025) - “How do lines of inquiry unfold? insights from journalism” Oxford Studies in Epistemology, forthcoming in 2025 - “Vigilantism and Political Vision” Washington University Review of Philosophy, 2022. - “Inference without Reckoning”. In M. Balcerak-Jackson and B. Balcerak-Jackson, eds. New Essays on Reasoning. Oxford University Press 2020. - “Rich or Thin?” Debate with Alex Byrne about the contents of perception. In Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Perception. Ed. B. Nanay. Routledge. 2016. - “How is Wishful Seeing like Wishful Thinking?” In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2016. - "Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification", Noûs 2012 - "The Visual Experience of Causation", Philosophical Quarterly (2009) - "Which Properties are Represented in Perception?" in T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne, Perceptual Experience (Oxford University Press, 2006) - "Subject and Object in the Contents of Visual Experience," Philosophical Review 115:3 (2006) - "How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2006) - "Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness," Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (2006) - "Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives," Noûs 40 (2006) - "The Phenomenology of Efficacy", Philosophical Topics (2006) - ## Person Categories [Regular Faculty](/taxonomy/term/125841) - ## Department Roles [Placement Officer](/department-roles/placement-officer)