Susanna Siegel is a contemporary analytic philosopher at Harvard University specializing in philosophy of mind and epistemology. She is best known for defending a 'rich content' view of perceptual experience, arguing that perception represents high-level properties such as natural kinds, causation, and agent types. Her work examines both the intentional structure of perceptual experience and its epistemic standing.
Authored 'The Contents of Visual Experience' (2010), defending that perceptual experience has rich intentional content beyond basic sensory qualities
Authored 'The Rationality of Perception' (2017), arguing that perceptual experiences can themselves be epistemically rational or irrational
Developed influential account of cognitive penetration and its implications for the epistemic role of perception
Argued that experiences with any content—including nonconceptual—can serve as evidence and stand in justificatory relations
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, central figure in contemporary philosophy of perception