
Shaun Gallagher @ UCF & HertsRecent and Forthcoming Lectures and Conference Papers
2012
Visiting Professor, Forscherkolleg Bildakt und Verkörperung (Collegium for Picture Act and Embodiment). Humboldt University, Berlin (May-July 2012).
TBA. Philosophy colloquium. Vanderbilt University, Nashville (16-17 February 2012)
Merleau-Ponty and cognitive sciences. Phenomenology between Minds and Media. Sawyer Seminar at Duke University (26 January 2012).
2011
TBA. Conference on Virtue and Expertise. University of Wollongong, Australia (December 2011)
TBA. Conference on Charles Taylor. McGill University. (8-10 December 2011).
Multidimensionality in the ‘warmth and intimacy’ of bodily self-consciousness. The complex self: reflections on interdisciplinarity. Center for Subjectivity Research. University of Copenhagen (30 Nov – 2 December 2011).
Phenomenological time and agency. Conference on Time and Agency. George Washington University (18-19 November 2011).
An education in narratives. The International Institute for Hermeneutics. SPEP Conference, Philadelphia (19 October 2011).
Lectures on body, action and intersubjectivity. Health Sciences and Neurological Physiotherapy. University of Tromsø (12-14 September 2011)
TBA. Conference: The Future of the Embodied Mind. eSMCs Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition Project. San Sebastian, Spain (5-9 September 2011).
The selves in schizophrenia . Summer School: The core and fringes of psychopathology: Interdisciplinary interface of psychiatry. University of Copenhagen (15-19 August 2011).
Enactive intentionality. Summer School: Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. University of Copenhagen (12 August 2010)
The social self: internal structures and external scaffolds. Summer school: On the architecture of the social mind: Self, other and interaction in cultural contexts. Köln, Germany (16-23 July 2011).
The phenomenology of social perception. Public lecture. University of Cologne (18 July 2011).
Being embodied. Inaugural meeting: The center for mind, brain and cognitive evolution. University of Bochum (14 July 2011).
Social cognition, interaction and narrative. Summer School: Embodied and Narrative Practices: Clinical and Practical Applications. University of Hertfordshire (11-12 July 2011).
Empathie, cognition sociale et phénoménologie. Conference on Empathy. Cerisy la Salle. Normandy, France. (19-25 June 2011).
'False-belief' experiments with young infants and situated interaction. Conference on Situated Social Cognition. University of Leiden (17 June 2011).
Visiting Researcher, Center for Semiotics. Aarhus University/University of Copenhagen. (May 2011)
TBA. Conference on performance. University of Southern Denmark. (26-27 May 2011).
Heidegger and social cognition - a critique. Inaugural lecture as Honorary Professor of Philosophy. MEF & Center for Subjectivity Research. University of Copenhagen (19 May 2011).
The selves in schizophrenia. Conference on Schizophrenia and Self-Consciousness. Center for Integrative Life Sciences. Humboldt-Universität. Berlin (14-15 May 2011).
Empathy, simulation and narrative. Conference: Empathy, Simulation, and Narrative. Center for Semiotics. Aarhus University. (13 May 2011).
Masterclass on Critical Theory and Social Cognition. Center for Semiotics Masterclass . Aarhus University (9-10 May 2011).
Social interaction and the socially extended mind. Seminar on Wild Cognition: Embedded, extended, enactive and distributed. Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University (4 May 2011).
Masterclass on Action and Interaction. Center for Semiotics Masterclass. Aarhus University (2-3 May 2011).
Perspectives on the self. A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Linking Belief to Behavior. New York Academy of Sciences, NYC (28 April 2011). VIDEO.
Phenomenal qualities and enactive perception. Conference on Perception and Phenomenal Qualities. University of Hertfordshire. (15-17 April 2011).
The socially extended mind and critical theory. Philosophy Colloquium, Cardiff University, Wales (13 April 2011).
Some qualifications on the ‘warmth and intimacy’ of bodily self-consciousness. Public seminar: Meaning and Mindedness. Travistock Clinic, University of London (25 March 2011).
The socially extended mind. Keynote lecture at a conference. The Socially Extended Mind. Free University of Berlin (21-22 March 2011).
The socially extended mind. Institut des sciences cognitives. Université du Québec à Montréal. (18 February 2011).
2010
Dissociation in self-narrative and the narratives of schizophrenics. A quoi ca ressemble d'etre schizophrene / What is is like to be schizophrenic. Centre d’Epistémologie des Sciences Cognitive. ENS. Lyon (13-15 December 2010).
Strong interaction and the question of autonomy. Conference: The Second Person Perspective - Philosophical, Developmental and Neurobiological Approaches, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Berlin, Germany (9-11 December 2010).
Enactive intentionality. Colloquium. Sussex University (7 December 2010).
Interaction and self-agency . Aisthetik der Geister Workshop. Zurich (12-14 November 2010).
Interpretations of embodiment in recent research. Institute of psychology, University of Innsbruck. Innsbruck (11 November 2010)
Free will and the sense of agency. National Yang Ming University. Taipei, Taiwan. (27 October 2010)
Enactive intentionality. Self-Consciousness and Perception. National Taiwan University and the National Science Council. Taipei (25-26 October 2010).
Self-agency and the autonomy of interaction. Keynote address. Sixth International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Athens (29 September-3 October 2010)
Intersubjectivity and institutions. Keynote lecture. Volkswagen Foundation Conference on Social and Cultural Cognition. Bonn, Germany (16-19 September 2010)
Of two minds: A reason and a passion for the ego. The Cartesian “Myth of the Ego” and the Analytic/Continental Divide Workshop, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (3-4 September 2010).
TBA. Interactional expertise conference. Berkeley (8 August 2010).
Self-agency and interaction. Keynote lecture. Embodied intersubjectivity. Marie Curie Foundation DISCOS Meeting. Budapest (14-20 June 2010)
The non-representational intentional. A debate with Mark Rowlands. CREA, Paris (7 June 2010)
Delusions: Beliefs or multiple realities. VIème Journee de phenomenology psychiatrique de Nice. Nice, France. (4 June 2010)
Interaction and intersubjectivity: Answering some critics. Invited lecture, Facoltà di Filosofia Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy (31 May 2010)
Re-thinking the mind: Several problems generated by belief-desire psychology. Séminaire d'epistémologie des sciences cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon (15 April 2010)
Belief, emotion, and delusional realities. The Roles of Emotion in Psychiatric Illness, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Durham University (24-26 March 2010)
Critical theory, phenomenology and neuroscience. Invited public lecture. Interdoctorate seminar on Methodology in Human Sciences. University of Bologna (9 March 2010).
Lectures on action and interaction. Three-day seminar. Semiotics program. University of Bologna (7-12 March 2010).
The body’s architecture. Keynote address. Third International conference on Arakawa and Gins: Philosophy and Architecture. Griffith University Research Centre, Australia. Video lecture on the web. (March 2010)
Social perception: Enaction or simulation? Philosophy Colloquium. Union College (4 March 2009)
Phenomenology, neural simulation, and the enactive approach to intersubjectivity. Phenomenology, Cognition, and Neuroscience. Silverman Center Symposium. Duquesne University (18-20 February 2010)
Self, ownership and agency. Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative Seminar. Harvard University (8 February 2009).
Joint attention: theory or interaction. Symposium on Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind. Mexican Philosophical Association Conference. Mexico City (26-29 January 2010).
Interaction and social cognition. Inaugural Lecture, Master of Cognitive Science Program. University of Cuernavaca, Mexico (25 January 2010)
Phenomenology and critical neuroscience. Phenomenology in the cognitive sciences. Center for Subjectivity Research. Copenhagen (14-16 January 2010).
Narrative distance and the landscape of action in deceptive self-narratives. Workshop on Narrative and the Self. Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia (12 December 2009).
Engaged justice: The extended mind and social institutions. Embodied Virtues and Expertise. The University of Wollongong, Australia (6-14 December 2009)
Coordination and co-constitution in joint attention. Colloquium. Husserl Archives, Paris (16 November 2009)
A phenomenological critique of Frith’s cognitive neuroscientific account of though insertion. Philosophy of Mind Seminar. Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon (12 November 2009)
Aesthetics and kinaesthetics. Seeing and Acting. Collegium for Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment. Humboldt University, Berlin (5-7 November 2009).
Interaction and social perception. Colloquium. Institut Jean Nicod, Paris (23 October 2009)
The overextended mind: Hegel’s relevance to recent work on distributed cognition. Public Lecture. CREA, Paris (13 October 2009)
Lectures on body, action, and intersubjectivity. Health Sciences and Neurological Physiotherapy. University of Tromsø (6-7 October 2009)
Overextended minds: social and institutional cognition. CNCC Final Meeting. University of Edinburgh. (3-6 October 2008)
Coordination and the outcomes of joint attention . Joint Attention: Developments in Philosophy of Mind, Developmental and Comparative Psychology, and Cognitive Science. Bentley University, Boston (1-4 October 2009)
Social interaction in the phenomenology of agency. Conference: The social construction of the self. Alghero, Sardinia (28-29 September 2009).
Primary intersubjectivity. The Social Self. Summer School. Alghero, Sardinia (24-27 September)
Misattribution: Agency in thought and action. Workshop with Shaun Gallagher. Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Berlin (16 July 2009)
Affective disruption and delusional experience. Habitus in Habitat I – Emotion and Motion. Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) Berlin (9-12 July 2009).
Illness as a complete form of existence. Keynote lecture. UK Association for Medical Humanities. (7 July 2009).
Mental causation and agency. Invited Plenary Session. Mind and Life Summer Research Institute. Garrison, NY (7-13 June 2009)
Action and interaction. LECA-Symposium. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany (8 May 2009)
The enactive hand. Conference: The Hand - An Organ of the Mind. Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia: (1-3 May 2009).
Embodiment and intersubjectivity: Phenomenological and empirical studies. Attention, Memory, and Phenomenological Study of the Mind: A Synergy of Psychological Neuroscience, and Contemplative Perspectives. Mind and Life XIX, Conference with the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala (6-10 April 2009).
Intersubjective aspects of body schema and body image. Body schema and the subjectivity of the body. Université de Genève. Geneva (12-13 March 2008)
Embodied interaction: Two problems of intersubjectivity. Keynote lecture. Graduate Student Conference, University of South Florida (27-29 February 2009)
Two problems of intersubjectivity. Philosophy colloquium. McGill University. (13 February 2009)
Multiple realities and delusions. Colloquium, Group on literary theory, embodied cognition and the brain. Yale University (12 February 2009)
Scanning the lifeworld. Critical Neuroscience. Challenging Reductionism in Psychiatry and Social Neuroscience. UCLA (28-30 January 2009).
Susan Hurley's concept of shared cognition. Memorial Symposium for Susan Hurley (with Ned Block, Alva Noe, Sean Kelly, and Jose Bermudez). APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (December 2008).
Somaesthetics and care of the body. Body consciousness and somaesthetics. Society for the Philosophy of Creativity. APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (December 2008).
Gesture and narrative in social cognition. Motion and emotion project. Berlin Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies (ZfL). Berlin. (9-16 December 2008)
Intersubjectivity and communicative practice: Can cognitive science contribute to critical theory? Seminar on critical neuroscience. Osnabrück University, Germany (5 December 2008).
Philosophical autism in recent accounts of perception and action. Philosophy of Cognitive Science Colloquium. Osnabrück University (4 December 2008).
Intercorporality and intersubjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and the critique of theory of mind. Japanese Society for Phenomenology and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Tokyo (22-23 November 2008).
Neuroscience, free will and moral responsibility. Workshop on neuroethics. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. University of Tokyo. (20 November 2008)
Intentionality and social kinaesthesia. Workshop on intentionality, the body, and the sensorimotor cortex. Birkbeck College, University of London, and the Anna Freud Center (8 November 2008)
A gestural model of social kinaesthesia. Conference on Self and Other. Alghero, Sardinia (26-29 October 2008).
Neurons, neonates, and narratives: From embodied resonance to empathic understanding. Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture. University of British Columbia, Vancouver (10-12 October 2008).
Looking for action. Philosophy Colloquium, Simon Frasier University. Vancouver (9 October 2008)
Social kinaesthesia. Conference on Kinaesthesis and Movement. University of Tampere, Finland (2-4 October 2008)
Social cognition in Merleau-Ponty and cognitive science. Fifth Central and Eastern European Conference on Phenomenology. Prague (28 September - 1 October 2008)
Gesture and narrative in social cognition. Center for Theoretical Study. Charles University. Prague (25 September 2008)
Narrative and empathy. American Psychological Association, Boston (14-17 August 2008)
Interaction theory and the science of social cognition. Collegium on Social Cognition and Social Narrative. University of San Marino (7-13 July 2007).
Philosophical autism and associated problems. Keynote paper. Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind Postgraduate Conference. Durham University (1-2 July 2008)
Sensorimotor and metacognitive contributories to the sense of agency. Sense of Agency: From sensorimotor processing to meta-representation. CNCC Workshop, University of Edinburgh (30 June 2008)
The shadow of the transcendental: Merleau-Ponty and cognitive science. Keynote lecture. Interdisciplinary Graduate and Post-Doctoral conference on Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology. University of Edinburgh (27 June 2008).
Phronesis and social cognition. Workshop: The Varieties of Moral Experience: A Phenomenological Investigation. Durham University (24-26 June 2008)
The impact of neural, psychological, and social factors on the responsible assignment of moral responsibility for action. International Symposium on the Foundations of Social Behavior. University of Zurich. (18-21 June 2008)
Hermeneutics, narrative, and the interpretation of others. Mind and Culture group. Rutgers University. (30 April 2008)
Seeing other minds: An alternative to mindreading. Vision Sciences Lab Lecture. Harvard University (22 April 2008).
Self and the sense of ownership for body and action. Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative Seminar. Harvard University (21 April 2008).
Reading room. An experimental installation (with Jondi Keane and Alan Prohm). Reversible Destiny: The Second International Arakawa + Gins: Architecture + Philosophy Conference. Slought Foundation / University of Pennsylvania (4-6 April 2008).
Trouble in the specious present. Consciousness and Time. European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities, Volkswagen Foundation Workshop on Time-Consciousness. University of Edinburgh (1-3 April 2008)
Gestures in social cognition. Conference: The Magic of Body Language. Faculty of Huamnities, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (13-14 March 2008)
Non-representationalism in action. Life and Mind Seminar. University of Sussex (4 February 2008).
Brain, body, and beyond. Subjectivity and the body: Espra2 Conference. University of Copenhagen. (29 January-1 February 2008)
2007
The key to the Chinese room. Backgrounding: From the Body of Knowledge to the Knowing Body. Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia: (October 5-7, 2007).
Incompatible views on incompatibilism: Comment on Shaun Nichols. Agency and Responsibility: Perspectives from Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. (13-15 September 2007)
Neural and extra-neural contributions to consciousness. Symposium on Consciousness, 2nd Annual EPFL Life Sciences Symposium. Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne (29-31 August 2007).
Representation in deed, indeed. Embodied and extended mind workshop. University of Hull, England (9-10 July 2007)
Pre-narrative and narrative practices in understanding others. Narrative Alternatives to Theories of Mind, University of Hertfordshire (12-15 July 2007)
Agency, body schema and intentionality. INSERM Laboratoire Espace et action. Lyon (14 June 2007)
Embodiment and the consciousness of agency. Second Cargèse Summer School on Consciousness, Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques of Cargèse. ENS-LSH. Corsica. (13 June 2007).
Phenomenological and experimental studies of the experience of agency. Perspectives on body and embodiment. University College Dublin (8-9 June 2007)
Roundtable: Philosophie et hallucinations. Maison de la recherché. Université de Paris - Sorbonne (31 May 2007)
Representation in action. The body and its Representation. Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon (21-22 May 2007)
Pathologies of the lived body. Minding the Body: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Inaugural Conference, Center for Body, Mind and Culture. Florida Atlantic University. (29-30 March 2007).Body, Agency, and Intersubjectivity. The Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2010. The innaugural lectures of this series. Philosophisches Seminar. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (12-14 March 2007)
Perception, simulation and the actions of others. Social cognition, emotions, and self-consciousness. Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Hanse Institute for Advanced Study. Delmenhorst, Germany (March 8 - 10, 2007)
Simulation trouble. One-day conference with Vittorio Gallese. Cognitive Science and Philosophy. University of Siena (Italy). (5 March 2007)
Simulation theory and social cognition. Cognitive Science Colloquium. University of Delaware. 16 February 2007.
Taking intersubjectivity seriously. Human Existence, Purpose, and Intentionality. Center for the Study of Learning, The George Washington University. Santiago, Chile (7-8 January 2006)
2006
Social robots and social cognition. Embodied and Situated Cognition: From Phenomenology to Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. Polish Society of Cognitive Science. Poland (16-18 November 2006)
The experience and attribution of agency. Cognitive Science Lecture, Instytut Filozofii. University of Poznan, Poland (14-15 November 2006).
Esquizofrenia: una visión neurofenomenológica. Plenary. National Conference of the Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría. Medellín, Colombia (2-6 November 2006)
Esquema corporal e imagen corporal en deaferenciación propioceptiva & Comprensión de los otros en la narrativa y en la acción. A two-part symposium. National Conference of the Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría . Medellín, Colombia (2-6 November 2006)
How the body shapes the mind. Philosophy Department Colloquium, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia (2 November 2006).
The structure of pre-reflective self-consciousness. The Origin of Consciousness: Perspectives from Neuroscience. A debate between Christopher Frith and Christof Koch Leibnizian panel member. University of San Marino, Center for Semiotics and Cognitive Studies. San Marino (27-29 October 2006).
Schizophrenia and experiments with the sense of self-agency. Invited lecture. Maudsley Philosophy Group, Institute of Psychiatry, London (25 October 2006)
From the minimal self to the narrative other. Plenary talk. 10th Annual Conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. St Anne's College, Oxford (September 15-17, 2006)
Phenomenology and embodied cognitive science. A series of lectures. University of Jyväskylä , Finland (11-13 September 2006).
Moral personhood and primitive self-consciousness. Workshop on Embodiment and Personhood. University of Jyväskylä, Finland (14 September 2006).
Multiple aspects of agency: Phenomenology and experiments. Plenary talk. Situated Cognition: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Science. Durham University, UK. (18- 20 August 2006)
Social cognition and social robots. Exploratory Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, Intelligence and Control (CogRIC) Windsor, UK (August 16-18, 2006)
The success and failure of narrative. Plenary talk. Language, Culture, and Mind Conference. École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST). Paris (17-20 July 2006).
Body ownership and self-agency. Embodied Mind Workshop, Cardiff University (13-14 July 2006)
Perception, action and context: Understanding others without simulation. Conference: The Extended Mind 2. The University of Hertfordshire (10-12 July 2006)
Experience and interpretation: Bottom-up and top-down explanations of schizophrenic symptoms of delusions of control. Plenary paper. International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry, and the Neurosciences. Leiden University, The Netherlands (June 28 - July 1).
Simulation theory and the perception of others in action. Colloquium. Center for Subjectivity Research (30 May 2006).
Embodiment in multiple realities. Conference on "Presence." Media and Film Science, University of Cophenhagen (June 6, 2006).
The educational backdrop of phronesis. Phenomenological approaches to Moral Philosophy and Education. With Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly. Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, University of Oslo (June 6-8, 2006).
The experience and attribution of agency: Schizophrenia, neuroscience, phenomenology. Symposium on Philosophy and Psychiatry. Philosophy of Mind and Psychiatry Group, La Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría. Universidad de Bogotá. Colombia. (22-23 April 2006).
The perception of others in action. Plenary talk. Congreso Colombiano de Filosophía. Universidad de Bogotá. Colombia. (21 April 2006).
Situated reflection, free will, and moral deliberation. First-Person Study of Consciousness: Shared Foundations and Moral Dimensions. Center for Creative Inquiry. San Francisco (March 31-April 2, 2006).
Narrative and theory of mind. Plenary talk. Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference. University of North Florida (March 11, 2006)
La perception d'autrui en action. Fondements cognitifs de l'interaction avec autrui (Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre) Collège de France (22 February 2006).
Simulation and motor resonance. Seminar. Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action. Collège de France (February 2006).
Phenomenology, cognitive science, and their mutual transformations. Human Existence, Purpose, and Intentionality. Center for the Study of Learning at The George Washington University. Program with H. Maturana, Santiago, Chile (January 2006)