Durant le mois juin 2017, l'Institut Jean Nicod accueille Susanna Siegel, professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Harvard. Sa recherche porte sur la philosophie de l'esprit et de l'épistémologie. Ses travaux de recherche en philosophie de la perception et l'épistémologie perceptive sont largement reconnus et cités. A l'occasion de sa venue , elle donne 3 conférences les 22 et 23 juin 2017

1. Perceptual confidence and perceptual inference

I argue that perceptual confidences (the analysis of perceptual experience in terms of incremental states like credences) are not motivated by phenomenal considerations, and that perceptual phenomenology may count against it. On the face of it, the analysis might seem to be better motivated by considerations about Bayesian perceptual processing, but I argue that any motivation in the vicinity comes from contentious bridge principles about the relationship between pre-conscious processing and perceptual experience, rather than considerations about processing itself.