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 received my MA in Philosophy from Tufts University.

I work in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and philosophy of science. My research aims to better understand perceptual consciousness and explanatory practices in psychology and neuroscience. 

Publications

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

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

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

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

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

Contact: gabriel-siegel@uiowa.edu