Susanna Claire Siegel
Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Philosophy, Emerson Hall
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 617-495-1884, fax. 617-495-2192
ssiegel@fas.harvard.edu
Employment
July 1999-June 2004: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
July 2004-December 2005: Associate Professor of Philosophy and John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
December 2005-present: Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Education
September 1993 - May 1999: Cornell University, Ph.D. Philosophy, January 2000
Dissertation: Perception and Demonstrative Reference
M.A. Philosophy May 1996
September 1991 - May 1993: Yale University
M.A. Philosophy May 1993
September 1986 - May 1991: Swarthmore College
B.A. Philosophy, Minor in Social Theory June 1991
(1989-90: University of México, Morelos, Michoacán)
Awards
Buttrick-Crippen Award for best freshman writing seminar, Cornell University 1998
NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, UC Santa Cruz 2002
Australian Research Council Grant, with David Chalmers and Ned Block. "High-level Contents of Consciousness". 2007-2009.
Presentations
•August 2008 "Is Visual Experience a Propositional Attitude?"World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Seoul South Korea
•April 2008 "Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification" Seminar Discussion, MIT
•April 2008 "Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification" Rutgers University
•April 2008 "Phenomenal Contrast and the Contents of Experience" Towards of Science of Consciousness 2008, University of Arizona
•March 2008 "Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification" Basic Knowledge Workshop on Perceptual Justification, University of St Andrews
•December 2007 "The Visual Experience of Causaion" General discussion, Bates College
•November 2007 "The Fact View and the Content View" Themes from Epistemological Writings of McDowell, University of Stirling
•November 2007 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" Glasgow Workshop on Perception and Introspection
•October 2007 "Do Experiences have Contents?" Seminar discussion, Brown University
•October 2007 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" University of Vermont
•June 2007 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" ANU Workshop on Phenomenology and Intentionality
•March 2007 "How Can We Discover the Contents of Experience?" University of Glasgow, Conference on the Admissable Contents of Experience
•October 2006 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" University of London
•October 2006 "The Visual Experience of Causation" University of Warwick
•September 2006 "How Can We Find Out Which Contents Experiences Have?" Spindel Conference, Memphis, with comments by Joseph Tolliver
•September 2006 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" University of Mississippi, Oxford
• September 2006 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Berlin
• May 2006 "The Visual Experience of Causation" On-line Philosophy Conference
• May 2006 Comments on Sean Kelly's "Perceptual Normativity and Human Freedom" Cornell Cognitive Studies Symposium on Perception and Action
• April 2006 "Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?" Amherst College
• March 2006, "The Visual Experience of Causation" Massachusetts Bay Philosophy Alliance
• February 2006, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy" University of California, Berkeley
• January 2006, "The Experience and Perception of Causation" Arizona Ontology Conference
• October 2005, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy" MIT
• October 2005, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy" University of Toronto
• April 2005, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy" UMass Amherst
• March 2005, Comments on Michelle Montague's "Russell's Principle and a Problem for Vision" Pacific Division APA
• February 2005, "Direct Realism and Perceptual Consicousness" Australian National University and Center for Consciousness
• January 2005, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy" Australian National University
• December 2004, "The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference" discussion at Yale University
• November 2004, "Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness" Conference on The Phenomenal, University College, London
• July 2004, "Object-seeing and the Sensation/Perception Distinction" Invited Symposium on Object Perception, SPP/ESPP, Barcelona, Spain
• June 2004, Comments on Mike Martin's "On Being Alienated", NYU Conference on Consciousness and Intentionality, La Pietra, Florence, Italy
• June 2004, Comments on Scott Sturgeon's "Apriorism about Modality", University of Konstanz, Germany
• April 2004, Discussion with Marc Hauser on Moral Judgments and Cognitive Science, Harvard Society for Mind, Brain and Behavior
• April 2004, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy", Tufts University
• April 2004, "The Phenomenology of Efficacy", Yale University Perception and Cognition Lab
• March 2004, "How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?", Pacific Division APA
• February 2004, "Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception", UCLA
• February 2004, "Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives", UCLA Philosophy of Language Workshop • February 2004, Comments on David Chalmers' "Perception and the Fall from Eden", Concepts and Content Conference, UC Santa Barbara • December 2003, Comments on James Pryor's "What is De Re Thought?", Eastern Division APA • November 2003, "Visual Experience and the Phenomenology of Efficacy ", Workshop on the Phenomenology of Agency, University of Arizona • August 2003, "Which Properties are Represented in Perception?", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • August 2003, "Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception", Dartmouth College • July 2003, "Two Phenomenological Constraints on Object-seeing", National Yang Ming University Workshop on Consciousness, Taipei, Taiwan • July 2003, "Which Properties are Represented in Perception?", National Yang Ming University Workshop on Consciousness, Taipei, Taiwan • July 2003, "Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives", ANU Workshop in Philosophy of Language • June 2003, "Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception", Australian National University • May 2003, "Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives", Language, Mind and World Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina • March 2003, Comments on Noam Chomsky's Distinguished Lectures on Mind, Brain and Behavior, Harvard University • November 2002, "Which Properties are Represented in Perception?", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • November 2002, "Which Properties are Represented in Perception?", Center for Consciousness Studies, University
of Arizona, Tucson • November 2002, "Object-seeing and the
Mental", University of Virginia • October 2002, "The Disjunctive Theory of Perception",
Swarthmore College • October 2002,
"Are Kind-Properties Represented in Perception?", Syracuse
University • July 2002, "Misperception", NEH
Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, UC Santa Cruz
•April 2002, Comments on M. G. F. Martin's "The Limits of Self-Awareness", Oberlin Colloquium on Perception
• April 2002, "Misperception", Utah Colloquium on Self-Knowledge, with comments by Ned Block and Ram Neta
• February 2002, "Misperception", Vassar College
• August 2000, "Object-seeing and Phenomenal Character" European Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Fribourg, Switzerland• June 2001, "Object-seeing and Unfilled Propositions", University of Rijeka, Croatia
• May 2001, "The Contents of Visual Experience" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University
• April 2001, "Demonstrative Reference: What is it?" Amherst College, guest seminar in Philosophy department
• November 2000, "Object-seeing and the mental", Philosophy Department, NYU
• September 2000, "Object-seeing and the mental" Mental Phenomena III, Inter-university Center, Dubrovnic, Croatia
• May 2000, "Raw Feels, Truth-aptness, and visual differentiation", Cumberland Lodge, Birkbeck College, London.
• May 2000, "Visual experience and individuation", Birkbeck College, London
Publications
"The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference", Philosophers' Imprint Vol. 2, No. 1
"Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal", in Philosophical Studies 120: 90-112, 2004
"Which Properties Are Represented in Perception?" in Perceptual Experience, eds. T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne, OUP 2005
"Policing and Presupposition in Complex Demonstratives" (with Michael Glanzberg), NOUS 40:1, 2006
"How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2006
"Subject and Object in the Contents of Visual Experience "Philosophical Reivew 115, No. 3
"Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 73:2, September 2006
"The Phenomenology of Efficacy" forthcoming in Philosphical Topics
"The Epistemic Conception of Hallucination" in Disjunctivism: Perception, Action and Knowledge. Eds. A. Haddock and F. MacPherson. Oxford University Press, 2008
"How Can We Find Out Which Contents Experiences Have?" in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Proceedings of the 2006 Spindel Conference.
"The Visual Experience of Causation " forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly "The Contents of Perception" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "The Contents of Consciousness", forthcoming in the Oxford Companion to Consciousness, Eds. Bayne, Cleermans and Wilken "Do We See More Than We Can Access?" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Commentary on "Consciousness, Accessibility and the Mesh Between Psychology and Neuroscience", by Ned Block. Co-authored with Alex Byrne and David Hilbert Review of A Theory of Sentience by Austen Clark
January 2002Philosophical
Review Review of John Campbell's book Reference and Consciousness,
in Philosophical Review vol. 113, no 3, July 2004 Unpublished commentaries Comments on Jim Pryor's "An Epistemic Theory of Acquaintance", December 2003, Invited Symposium on Epistemology, Eastern Division APA Comments on David Chalmers' "Perception and the Fall from Eden", February 2004, Concepts and Content Conference, UC Santa Barbara Comments on Scott Sturgeon's "Apriorism about Modality", June 2004, Concepts and the Apriori, Konstanz, Germany "The Dog and the Zombie" - Comments on M.G.F. Martin's "On Being Alienated", July 2004, NYU Conference on Consciousness and Intentionality, Florence, Italy Comments on Michelle Montague's "Russell's Principle and a Problem from Vision", March 2005, Pacific APA Colloquium on Perception
Comments on Sean Kelly's "Perceptual Normativity and Human Freedom", May 2006, Cornell Cognitive Studies Symposium on Perception and Action
Courses taught (enrollments in parentheses) Political Obligation and Civil Disobedience (10), Fall
1999 Proseminar on Perception (6), Spring 1999 Proseminar on Demonstratives (5), Spring 1999 Tutorial: Strawson's Individuals (4), Fall 2000
Grad. Seminar: Singular Reference and Perception of Particulars
(9), Spring 2000 Philosophy of Mind (25), Spring 2000 Tutorial: Authority, Obligation and Disobedience (10),
Fall 2001 Moral Reasoning about Social Protest (90), Fall 2000 (141), Fall 2001 (125), Spring 2004 Philosophy of language: pragmatics Grad Seminar: Referring Expressions (on leave, 2002-03) Introspection and Phenomenality (5), Fall 2003
Proseminar in Mind, Brain and Behavior (5), Fall 2003
Moral Reasoning about Social Protest (120), Spring 2004
(on leave, 2004-05)
Moral Reasoning about Social Protest (145), Spring 2006
Moral Reasoning about Social Protest (178), Spring 2007
Philosophy of Mind (15), Spring 2008
Moral Reasoning about Social Protest (136), Spring 2008
Professional Service Faculty Advisor, Women in Philosophy Undergraduate Club,
1999-present. Organized talks by Prof. Veronique Munoz-Dardeé, University College London, Prof. Ruth Anna Putnam of Wellesley
College, Prof. Nancy Bauer of Tufts Univeristy, Prof. Mary Kate McGowan
of Wellesley College, and a dinner/discussion for undergraduate women concentrators
in philosophy with Prof. Lisa Rivera of U-Mass Boston, Prof Amelie Rorty, Harvard Departmental affirmative action officer for graduate
admissions, 2000-01, 2007-08 Colloquium Committee, 2001-02 University Standing Committee on Program in Mind, Brain
and Behavior, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 Faculty member of the Undergraduate Dudley House Co-oop,
2001-02 Mind, Brain and Behavior advisor to undergraduate concentrators in Philosophy, 2003-04, 2007-08