Shaun Gallagher @ UCF

Professional Activities and Affiliations

Advisory Board member and visiting scholar: Centre for Subjectivity Research. The center sponsors research into consciousness from phenomenological, psychopathological, and theological perspectives. Funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2002-).

Advisory Board member: DISCOS (Disorders and coherence of the human self) Research Network, European Commission proposal, Heidelberg University, Germany (2003-2004).

Horizon Consultant: for Rosetta Pictures, BBC Television, science program Horizon, documentary on proprioception: The Man Who Lost his Body. Aired on the BBC, 16 October 1997.

Consultant: for featured article Why can't this man feel whether or not he's standing up? American Psychological Association Monitor, VOLUME 29 , NUMBER 6 (June 1998).

Visiting Researcher: University of Chicago, Psychology Department (June 1997 and April 2002). Experimental research on proprioception and gesture with David McNeill and Jonathan Cole. Partially funded by the University of Chicago and the Wellcome Trust.

Editorial Board Member: Psychiatrie, Sciences humaines, Neurosciences (Paris).

Member, Editorial Board: Science and Consciousness Review.

Member, Editorial Board: Arobase: Journal des lettres et sciences humaines (Review journal of Groupe de Recherche en Littératures & Sciences Humaines).

Member, Editorial Board: The Personalist Forum (1996-2000).

Consulting editor: Research in child development monographs. Program Committee: International Conference on Persons: Gaming, Austria, 2001; Santa Fe, New Mexico - August 1999

Review Panelist/External Referee:
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Review Panel: Human and Social Dynamics: Cognitive and Language Processes (May 2005).
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2005).
  • Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium) (2005).
  • Killam Research Fellowship Proposal, Canada Council for the Arts. (2004)
  • External Referee: Louisiana Board of Regents Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars. (2004)
  • Small grants Program, Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona (1998).

    •  External Evaluator: Program review. Department of Philosophy and Religion, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (January 2004).

    External evaluator: Ph.D. dissertation committees/juries:

  • Alexandre Billon, En personne: la réalité subjective de la conscience phénoménale University of Paris, Ecole Polytechnique (2005).
  • Matt Costello, Dissertation on causation and embodiment. Department of Philosophy. Duquesne University. (2004-).
  • Morten Overgaard, Theoretical and empirical studies of consciousness. Department of Psychology. Aarhus University. (2002-2003).
  • Ian Gerrie, Situating knowledge phenomenologically. York University, Toronto (2003).
  • Anthony Crisafi, The electronic dissertation. Texts and Technology Program. Department of English. University of Central Florida. (2003- ).
  • Diane Zorn, "Neuralprosthetics and the Lived Body: A Neurophenomenological Study," York University, Toronto (2000- ).
  • Mads Torgaard Jensen, Ethics and cognition. Center for Semiotic Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark (1999).
    • Manuscript Reviewer:

    Philosophical Psychology (2000, 2004, 2006)
    Perception (2005)
    Mind and Language (2003, 2005)
    Philosophy of Science (2005)
    Consciousness and Cognition (2003, 2004, 2005)
    Curriculum Inquiry (2005)
    Philosophical Quarterly (2004-05)
    Oxford University Press (2002-03-04)
    Science (2004)
    Trends in Cognitive Science (2002-04)
    Cognitive Linguistics (2004)
    Journal of Consciousness Studies (1996-2004)
    Fordham University Press (2004)
    Harper and Row (1986-87, 2004)
    Humanities/Prometheus (2003)
    Routledge (2002)
    Synthese (2002)
    Intellectica (2002)
    MIT Press (1999, 2001)
    Kluwer Academic (2001)
    Northwestern University Press (1993, 2001)
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2000)
    SUNY Press (2000, 1993, 1988)
    Journal of Intelligent Systems (1998)
    Journal of Mind and Behavior (1997, 1998)
    Southern Journal of Philosophy (1997)
    Cornell University Press (1997)
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (1996)
    Studies in Philosophy and Education (1995)
    International Studies in Philosophy (1992; 1989)
    Penn State Press (1991)
    Co-Organizer with Francisco Varela, Colloquium: Phenomenological and Experimental Approaches to Cognition, CREA Ecole Polytechnique, University of Paris 26-27 June 2000

    Grant Recipient, Conference Organizer, and Program Director: Matchette Foundation Conference on Interpretation and Representation, Canisius College (April 1995);

    Conference Organizer and Program Director: 14th Annual Merleau-Ponty Circle Conference, 21-23 September 1989, Canisius College, Buffalo.

    Grant Recipient and Organizer: Matchette Foundation Lecture Series: Art Theory in Recent French Thought, 1989-90, Canisius College, Buffalo.

    Grant Recipient and Organizer: Matchette Foundation Lecture Series: Philosophy of Psychology, 1986-87, Canisius College, Buffalo.

    Panel Participant: San Marino Center for Semiotics and Cognitive Studies Debate; The Origin of Consciousness: Perspectives from Neuroscience. A debate between Christopher Frith and Christof Koch. University of San Marino, Monestary at San Marino. (October 2006) Participant: The Fourth Rutgers Symposium on Self and Social Identity. Rutgers University. (April 2002).

    Participant: Gulbenkian Symposium on Science and Consciousness, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal (July 2000).

    Participant: Fetzer Institute Conference on Human Consciousness: Integrating Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Kalamazoo, MI (September 1999).

    Participant: Workshop on The Perception of Subjects and Objects, Spatial Representation Project, King's College Research Centre, Cambridge University (September 1992)

    Student Participant: Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy: Husserl (1977), Merleau-Ponty (1979); Faculty participant: Post-Hermeneutics (1992)

    Professional Affiliations:

    American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)

    Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (Board of Advisors)

    Merleau-Ponty Circle (Board of Advisors)

    Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

    International Forum on Persons (Program Committee)

    Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

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