Gabriel Siegel

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.

I received my PhD in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.

I work in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and philosophy of science. My current research aims to better understand perceptual consciousness (especially involving the body and the self). In addition, my current research is focused on the topic of scientific understanding.

Publications

(2025) "The Perceptual Sense of Agency" Review of Philosophy and Psychology. (open access)

(2025) "Transfer of Statistical Regularity in Visual Search" (with Richard A. Abrams) Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

(2025) "Can Basic Perceptual Features Be Learned?" Synthese. [pdf] 

(2024) "Scientific Understanding as Narrative Intelligibility" Philosophical Studies. [pdf] 

(2024) "Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations" (with Carl F. Craver) Philosophy of Science. (open access)

(2024) “Perceptual Modes of Presentation as Object Files” Erkenntnis. [pdf]

Contact: gabriel-siegel@uiowa.edu