Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher | |
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Gallagher in 2008 | |
| Born | 1948 |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Phenomenology Hermeneutics |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mind |
| Notable ideas | Coining the term "4E cognition"; the phenomenological distinction between body image and body schema; the sense of ownership vs. the sense of agency; the pattern theory of self; the socially extended mind (or cognitive institutions) |
Shaun Gallagher (born 1948) is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition, 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.