Shaun Gallagher is an American
philosopher known for his work on
embodied cognition,
social cognition
Social cognition is a sub-topic of various branches of psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations. It focuses on the role that cognitive processes play in social interacti ...
,
agency and the philosophy of
psychopathology. Since 2011 he has held the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the
University of Memphis
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The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering, the Center for Ea ...
and was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the
Humboldt Foundation
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(2012–2018). Since 2014 he has been Professorial Fellow at the
University of Wollongong
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in Australia. He has held visiting positions at Keble College, Oxford; Humboldt University, Berlin; Ruhr Universität, Bochum; Husserl Archives, ENS (Paris); École Normale Supérieure, Lyon; University of Copenhagen; and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University. He is also known for his philosophical notes on the effects of solitary confinement.
Career
Gallagher received his PhD in philosophy from
Bryn Mawr College
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where he studied with George Kline and
José Ferrater-Mora. He also studied philosophy at
Villanova University
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and
Leuven, and economics at the
State University of New York–Buffalo.
Gallagher is the author of several books, including ''Action and Interaction'' (2020),''Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind'' (2017), ''How the Body Shapes the Mind'' (2005), ''Phenomenology'' (2012), ''Hermeneutics and Education'' (1992), ''The Inordinance of Time'' (1998), ''Brainstorming'' (2008), ''The Phenomenological Mind'' (2008; 2nd edition, 2012, 3rd edition 2021) (with
Dan Zahavi
Dan Zahavi (born 1967) is a Danish philosopher. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at University of Copenhagen.
Biography
Dan Zahavi was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Israeli father and a Danish mother. He initially studied phenomenolo ...
), and (with several co-authors) ''The Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder'' (2015). He is also editor of ''The Oxford Handbook of the Self'' (2011), co-editor of ''The Oxford Handbook of 4E-Cognition'' (2018), and editor or co-editor of several other volumes. He is a founding editor and currently the co-editor in-chief of the journal ''Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences'',
Bibliography
* ''Performance/Art: The Venetian Lectures'' (Milan: Mimesis Mimesis International Edizioni, 2021)
* ''Action and Interaction'' (Oxford:
Oxford University Press
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, 2020)
* ''Oxford Handbook of 4E-Cognition'' (ed. with A. Newen, L. DeBruin (Oxford:
Oxford University Press
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, 2018)
* ''Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind'' (Oxford:
Oxford University Press
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, 2017)
* ''Phenomenology'' (London:
Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2012)
* ''The Oxford Handbook of the Self'' (ed) (
Oxford University Press
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, 2011)
* ''Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science''. Co-edited with D. Schmicking (Berlin:
Springer
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, 2010)
* ''The Phenomenological Mind'' (
Routledge
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; 2008). Second edition (2012); Third edition (2021), co-authored with
Dan Zahavi
Dan Zahavi (born 1967) is a Danish philosopher. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at University of Copenhagen.
Biography
Dan Zahavi was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Israeli father and a Danish mother. He initially studied phenomenolo ...
. Translations: Hungarian (2008); Italian (2009); Danish (2010); Japanese (2011); Korean (2013); Spanish (2013); Polish (2015); Arabic (2016).
* ''Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind'' (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2008)
* ''Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? An Investigation of the Nature of Volition''. Co-edited with W. Banks and S. Pockett (Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press
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History
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, 2006)
* ''How the Body Shapes the Mind'' (Oxford University Press; 2005)
* ''Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity''. Co-edited with S. Watson (Rouen: Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 2004)
* ''Models of the Self''. Co-edited with J. Shear (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 1999)
* ''The Inordinance of Time'' (
Northwestern University Press
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, 1998)
* ''Hegel, History, and Interpretation''. Editor (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1997)
* ''Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism''. Co-edited with T. Busch. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992)
* ''Hermeneutics and Education'' (State University of New York Press; 1992); Chinese translation (2009)
See also
*
American philosophy
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Phenomenology (philosophy)
Phenomenology (from Greek φαινόμενον, ''phainómenon'' "that which appears" and λόγος, ''lógos'' "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. As a philosophical movement it was founded ...
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Philosophy of mind
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Cognitive science
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Hermeneutics
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List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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References
External links
Faculty webpageGoogle ScholarNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Review of How the Body Shapes the Mind
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21st-century American philosophers
American consciousness researchers and theorists
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Hermeneutists
Phenomenologists
Philosophers of mind
Academics of the University of Hertfordshire
University of Memphis faculty
Living people
1948 births