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]
Gallagher is the author of several books, including Action and Interaction (2020),Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (2017), How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005), Phenomenology (2012), Hermeneutics and Education (1992), The Inordinance of Time (1998), Brainstorming (2008), The Phenomenological Mind (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
Performance/Art: The Venetian Lectures (Milan: Mimesis Mimesis International Edizioni, 2021)
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)