# Diss Summary + Research Statement **Opening (not a real abstract):** A number of recent developments in psychology and philosophy have undermined the once secure distinction between perception and belief. It is now widely held that perceptual states, like beliefs, are underwritten by inference-like processes and can be shaped by desires, expectations, and beliefs. It is also now widely held that beliefs, like perceptual experiences, are at least sometimes formed by non-inferential processes and can persist in the face of evidence that conflicts with them. Due to the erosion of these traditional markers of the boundary between perception and belief, some theorists have suggested that we reject altogether the view that perception and belief are of different fundamental kinds. In Two Worlds, One Mind: The Divide Between Perception and Belief, I draw on both epistemological and empirical considerations to argue that perception and belief differ