Introduction: Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher whose interests include embodied and social cognition, perception and agency. His research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and hermeneutics, especially the topics of embodied cognition and intersubjectivity. He holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He’s the author of several books, including How the Body Shapes the Mind, Hermeneutics and Education, The Inordinance of Time, and most recently Brainstorming (2008), and (with Dan Zahavi), The Phenomenological Mind (2008). He is editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Self (2011).
