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Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, a member of the senior research faculty at the Institute of Simulation and Training, and the Graduate Faculty of the Texts and Technology Ph.D. Program at the University of Central Florida (USA). He also has a consulting position as Research Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). He has held visiting positions at the Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon, the University of Copenhagen, and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. His recent books include How the Body Shapes the Mind (OUP 2005), Brainstorming (Imprint Academic 2008), and with Dan Zahavi, The Phenomenological Mind (Routledge 2007), in addition to his first two books: Hermeneutics and Education (1992) and The Inordinance of Time (1998). He is co-editor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and recently co-edited Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? An Investigation of the Nature of Volition (MIT 2006). His current projects include editing the forthcoming volume The Oxford Handbook of the Self.
Research Interests
- Phenomenology and philosophical psychology
- Cognitive Science
- Embodied cognition
- Action theory
- Self and personal identity
- Time
Recent Research Activities
Dr. Gallagher is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of the Self (Oxford University Press).
He has just finished editing the Handbook of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (in press at Springer).
He is working with Jonathan Cole on a book entitled Neuromythologies.
He has an ongoing book project entitled Action and Interaction, and he will be working on sabbatical in Fall 2009 at CREA in Paris.
Dr. Gallagher was a recent visiting scholar at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, and will return to the Center for a short research stay in Summer 2009.
In April 2009 he will be one of a handfull of scientists and philosophers who will be participating in a week-long conference on memory and attention with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India.
Awards
Professor Gallagher is Principle Investigator on the following recent grants:
- 2006-09. PI: National Science Foundation Grant. Representations of the minimal self in self-narrative
- 2008. PI: European Science Foundation Grant. Collegium/Summer School on Social Cognition and Social Narrative. San Marino University
- 2007. PI: European Science Foundation. Narratives Alternatives to Theories of Mind/ CNCC Conference support
- 2007. PI: European Science Foundation. Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended. CNCC networking grant to support graduate student conference participation
Activities
- Advisory Board. Danish National Research Foundation: Centre for Subjectivity Research. University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2002-)
- Advisory Board member: Disorders and coherence of the human self (DISCOS). Madam Curie Research Network, Heidelberg University, Germany (2003- );
- Scientific Committee member: Association pour la Recherche Transdisciplinaire des Hallucinations et autres États Modifiés de Conscience, Paris. (2008-)