Dan Zahavi is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. The main topics of his research fall within the field of phenomenology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He has written on the nature of self, self-awareness, intersubjectivity, social cognition, temporality, sociality, shame, empathy and collective intentionality. Zahavi is the author of a number of books, including Husserl’s Phenomenology (Stanford 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), The Phenomenological Mind with S. Gallagher (Routledge 2008/2012), and Self and Others (OUP 2014). He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, with Shaun Gallagher.
