Prof Shaun Gallagher

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has secondary appointments at at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and the University of Wollongong (AU); he’s Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), at Durham University (UK), and Honorary Professor of Health Sciences at Tromsø University (Norway). He’s held visiting positions at the Cognition and Brain Science MRC Unit at the University of Cambridge, the Ecole Normale Supériure in Lyon, the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA), Paris, and Humboldt University, Berlin. He is currently a Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Fellow (2012-17) and is PI on grants to conduct research on intersubjectivity and institutions (Marie Curie Foundation 2011-15) and has just completed a project on the aesthetic and spiritual experiences of astronauts during space travel (Templeton Foundation grant 2011-13).  His publications include Phenomenology (Palgrave Macmillan 2012); The Phenomenological Mind (with Dan Zahavi, Routledge, 2008; second edition 2012), Brainstorming (Imprint Academic, 2008); How the Body Shapes the Mind (Oxford, 2005); and as editor, the Oxford Handbook of the Self (Oxford, 2011).  He’s editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.