Shaun Gallagher

American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for work on phenomenology, embodied cognition, the sense of agency, and social/intersubjective cognition.

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  1. 1. Enactivist Interventions

    Rethinking the Mind

    This work offers a clear, compact defense and development of the enactivist approach to mind, arguing that cognition is not computation over internal representations but arises through embodied, situated activity, sensorimotor engagement, and autonomous sense-making. It brings philosophical argument, empirical examples, and methodological suggestions together to challenge representational and brain-bound models, extend enactivist ideas into social cognition and ethics, and propose interdisciplinary interventions—showing how shifting to an action- and organism-centered perspective reshapes research questions and practical applications across cognitive science and the human sciences.

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