Shaun Gallagher
{{short description|American philosopher}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Sean Gallagher (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region = Western philosophy
|era = Contemporary philosophy
|image = ShaunGallagher.jpg
|caption = Gallagher in 2008
|name = Shaun Gallagher
|birth_date = 1948
|school_tradition = Phenomenology
Hermeneutics
|main_interests = Philosophy of mind
|notable_ideas = Coining the term "4E cognition";Mark Rowlands (2010). The new science of the mind: From extended mind to embodied phenomenology. MIT Press, p. 3. the phenomenological distinction between body image and body schema;Shaun Gallagher (2005) How the Body Shapes the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press the sense of ownership vs. the sense of agency;Shaun Gallagher (2000). Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (1): 14-21 the pattern theory of self;Shaun Gallagher (2013). The pattern theory of self. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (443): 1-7. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00443 the socially extended mind (or cognitive institutions)Shaun Gallagher (2013). The socially extended mind. Cognitive Systems Research. 25-26: 4-12.
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Shaun Gallagher (born 1948) is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition,Joly I. (2011). Le Corps sans représentation. De Jean-Paul Sartre à Shaun Gallagher, Paris, L'Harmattan 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 (2012–2018). Since 2014, he has been Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He has held visiting positions at: Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, 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 discussion on the effects of solitary confinement.{{Cite journal|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00585|doi-access=free|title=The cruel and unusual phenomenology of solitary confinement|year=2014|last1=Gallagher|first1=Shaun|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=5|page=585|pmid=24971072|pmc=4054665}}
Career
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Gallagher received his PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College where he studied with George Kline and José Ferrater-Mora. He also studied philosophy at Villanova University and Leuven, and economics at the State University of New York–Buffalo.
Gallagher is the author of several books, including The Self and its Disorders (Oxford, 2024), Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition (Cambridge 2023) Action and Interaction (Oxford 2020), Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Oxford 2017), How the Body Shapes the Mind (Oxford 2005), Phenomenology (Palgrave 2012; 2nd ed. 2022), Hermeneutics and Education (SUNY 1992), The Inordinance of Time (Northwestern 1998), Brainstorming (Acad Imprint 2008), The Phenomenological Mind (Routledge 2008; 2nd edition, 2012, 3rd edition 2021) (with Dan Zahavi), 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
- The Self and its Disorders. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)
- Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Performance/Art: The Venetian Lectures (Milan: Mimesis Mimesis International Edizioni, 2021)
- Action and Interaction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Oxford Handbook of 4E-Cognition (ed. with A. Newen, L. DeBruin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Phenomenology (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Self (ed) (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Co-edited with D. Schmicking (Berlin: Springer, 2010)
- The Phenomenological Mind (Routledge; 2008). Second edition (2012); Third edition (2021), co-authored with Dan Zahavi. 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, 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, 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
References
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External links
- [http://www.ummoss.org Faculty webpage]
- [http://www.ummoss.org/gallpubs.html Publications]
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B1gMcHkAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
- [http://www.ummoss.org/gallBODY.html Reviews and Info: How the Body Shapes the Mind]
- [https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/how-the-body-shapes-the-mind/ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Review of How the Body Shapes the Mind]
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