Shaun Gallagher


Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher who works on embodied cognition, social cognition, 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 and was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation. Since 2014 he has been professorial fellow on the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong 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.

Career

Gallagher received his PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College. He also studied philosophy at Villanova University and Leuven, and economics at the State University of New York–Buffalo.
Gallagher co-edits the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and is the author of several books, including Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind, How the Body Shapes the Mind, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Education, The Inordinance of Time, Brainstorming, and, The Phenomenological Mind, The Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder, He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Self and several other volumes.