Susanna C. Siegel

Susanna Siegel is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Her research has focused on perception, drawing on both philosophy and the sciences of the mind. She has written about what kinds of things we can perceive; how our perceptions can be influenced by what we already know, suspect, or fear; and the relationships between perception and culture, memory, knowledge, concepts, and language. She is also interested in formal and informal epistemology, philosophy of mind, the philosophy of journalism, and political philosophy — and not only for their relationships to perception.

Siegel is the author of The Contents of Visual Experience and The Rationality of Perception. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lebowitz prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. She has served as President of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the American Society for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University.