Shaun Gallagher

Shaun Gallagher, PhD

Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at The University of Central Florida, where he is also a member of the Senior Research Faculty at IST, a research institute focused on simulation and modeling. He serves on the graduate faculty of UCF’s Text and Technology Program, and on the Humanities research faculty at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). He has held visiting positions at the Medical Research Council’s Cognitive and Brain Science Unit at Cambridge University, the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, the Ecole Normale Supériure in Lyon, and (in 2009-2010) the Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée (CREA), Paris. He is Editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, an interdisciplinary journal published by Springer. His research interests include phenomenology and the philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, embodiment, intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time.

Professor Gallagher’s His research is focused on embodied cognition and intersubjectivity. His books include How the Body Shapes the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2005), Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind (Imprint Academic 2008), and with Dan Zahavi, The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (Routledge 2008). He is also the author of The Inordinance of Time (Northwestern 1998) and Hermeneutics and Education (SUNY 1992). He is co-editor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and editor of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of the Self.

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