Dan Zahavi
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Dan Zahavi is a Danish
philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen
. He writes on phenomenology and especially the philosophy of Edmund Husserl
. He is co-editor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and author of Intentionalität und Konstitution, Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität, Self-awareness and Alterity, Husserl's Phenomenology, Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the first-person perspective, Phänomenologie für Einsteiger, and (with Shaun Gallagher
) The Phenomenological Mind. Zahavi was awarded the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology (2000), the silver medal from the Danish Royal Society of Sciences and Letters (2000), the Elite Research Prize of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
(2006) and was elected member of the Danish Royal Society of Sciences and Letters (2007). In 2011 he received The Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...
. He writes on phenomenology and especially the philosophy of Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...
. He is co-editor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and author of Intentionalität und Konstitution, Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität, Self-awareness and Alterity, Husserl's Phenomenology, Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the first-person perspective, Phänomenologie für Einsteiger, and (with Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher. He holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis...
) The Phenomenological Mind. Zahavi was awarded the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology (2000), the silver medal from the Danish Royal Society of Sciences and Letters (2000), the Elite Research Prize of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Denmark
The Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education is the Danish ministry in charge of research, innovation and education above high school/upper secondary school....
(2006) and was elected member of the Danish Royal Society of Sciences and Letters (2007). In 2011 he received The Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize.