Shaun Gallagher

For those of a similar name, see Sean Gallagher (disambiguation).
Shaun Gallagher
Gallagher in 2008
Born1948
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolPhenomenology
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas
Coining the term "4-E cognition";[1] the phenomenological distinctions between body image and body schema;[2] the sense of ownership and sense of agency;[3] the pattern theory of self;[4] and the socially extended mind (or cognitive institutions).[5]

Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition,[6] 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 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 notes on the effects of solitary confinement.[7]

  1. ^ Mark Rowlands (2010). The new science of the mind: From extended mind to embodied phenomenology. MIT Press, p. 3.
  2. ^ Shaun Gallagher (2005) How the Body Shapes the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press
  3. ^ Shaun Gallagher (2000). Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (1): 14-21
  4. ^ Shaun Gallagher (2013). The pattern theory of self. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (443): 1-7. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00443
  5. ^ Shaun Gallagher (2013). The socially extended mind. Cognitive Systems Research. 25-26: 4-12.
  6. ^ Joly I. (2011). Le Corps sans représentation. De Jean-Paul Sartre à Shaun Gallagher, Paris, L'Harmattan
  7. ^ Gallagher, Shaun (2014). "The cruel and unusual phenomenology of solitary confinement". Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 585. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00585. PMC 4054665. PMID 24971072.