Shaun Gallagher joined the department as the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in 2011. His areas of research include phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, especially topics related to embodiment, self, agency and intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of time. Dr. Gallagher is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen where he has also been Visiting Professor. He has a secondary research appointment at the University of Hertfordshire. He has held visiting positions at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, the Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée (CREA), Paris, and the Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon. During the summer term 2012 he will be Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Professor Gallagher is currently Principle Investigator on a European Commission Marie Curie Actions Grant: TESIS: Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity (2011-15) and a Templeton Foundation grant: Space, Science and Spirituality (2011-13); he is co-PI on an NSF grant: Metaphor-Based Learning of Physics Concepts Through Whole-Body Interaction in a Mixed Reality (2011-14), an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant: Embodied Virtues and Expertise (2010-13); and a British Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC] grant The Nature of Phenomenal Qualities (2010-12). Gallagher is also the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Curriculum vitae

Personal Website

S. Gallagher (ed.) 2011. Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gallagher, S. and Cole, J. 2011. Dissociation in self-narrative. Consciousness and Cognition 20: 149-155.

De Jaegher, H., Di Paolo, E. and Gallagher, S. 2010. Does social interaction constitute social cognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14 (10): 441-447.

Gallagher, S. 2010. Multiple aspects of agency. New Ideas in Psychology. Online.

Froese, T. and Gallagher, S. 2010. Phenomenology and artificial life: Toward a technological supplementation of phenomenological methodology. Husserl Studies 26 (2): 83-107.

S. Gallagher and Schmicking (eds). 2010. Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Berlin: Springer.

Gallagher, S. 2009. Two problems of intersubjectivity. Journal of Consciousness Studies 16 (6-8): 289-308.

Gallagher, S. and A. Crisafi. 2009. Mental institutions. Topoi 28 (1): 45-51.

S. Gallagher. 2008. Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind. Exeter: Imprint Academic.

S. Gallagher and D. Zahavi. 2008 (2nd ed. 2012). The Phenomenological Mind. London: Routledge.

Gallagher, S. 2008. Inference or interaction: Social cognition without precursors. Philosophical Explorations 11 (3): 163-73.

Gallagher, S. 2008. Are minimal representations still representations? International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (3): 351-69.

Gallagher, S. 2007. Social cognition and social robots. Pragmatics and Cognition 15 (3): 435-54.

Gallagher, S. 2007. Moral agency, self-consciousness, and practical wisdom. Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (5-6): 199-223.

Gallagher, S. 2007. Pathologies in narrative structure. Philosophy (Royal Institute of Philosophy) Supplement, 60: 65-86.

Gallagher, S. 2007. Simulation trouble. Social Neuroscience. 2 (3-4): 353-65.

Gallagher, S. and Jesper Brøsted Sørensen. 2006. Experimenting with phenomenology. Consciousness and Cognition 15 (1): 119-134

S. Gallagher. 2005. How the Body Shapes the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press.