Shaun Gallagher

Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher
	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,^[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: 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.^[7]

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

[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.

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