David Suarez discusses his work in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of mind. He begins by saying a little about his approach to philosophy: for Suarez, philosophy is primarily therapeutic, helping frame and solve problems that arise within our lives. He then situates his work between two different approaches to the mind. There is, on the one hand, physicalism, which tries to explain the mind in the very same physical terms we appeal to when explaining events and processes in the rest of world. On the other hand, there is phenomenology, a tradition which starts from our experiences and considers what needs to be in place to make these experiences possible. Suarez describes his own approach as one of "phenomenologizing nature." The basic idea is that we need to rethink what it is for something to be natural and so rethink what we have available to us in trying to explain the mind. While we tend to think of the natural in terms of standing, stable metaphysical objects, there is room, Suarez suggests, to think about it instead in terms of what can appear to us. It is a part of what it is for something to be real, to be a part of nature, on this view, that it have the capacity to appear. Suarez goes on to discuss two current projects. The first begins from a lecture of Heidegger's called "What is Metaphysics?" and explores what is meant by what Heidegger curiously calls 'the nothing'. While Heidegger has long been accused of speaking nonsense here, Suarez argues that what Heidegger is actually talking about are the background conditions which allow things to show up for us and have meaning for our lives. The second project concerns the phenomenology of temporality, and our relation to our own mental states. Though we tend to think that our own beliefs, feelings, and so on are completely transparent to us, and that this is part of what it is for them to be our mental states, Suarez argues that this is not exactly right. Just as there are always hidden sides to the physical objects we encounter, so it is with our own mental states. David Suarez is a lecturer at the University of Toronto.