Dan Zahavi (born 6 November 1967) is a Danish philosopher.Dan Zahavi was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and initially studied philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. He obtained his PhD in 1994 from the Husserl Archives at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, with Rudolf Bernet as his doctoral supervisor. In 1999 he defended his Danish Disputats (Habilitation) at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of CopenhagenZahavi writes on phenomenology (especially the philosophy of Edmund Husserl) and philosophy of mind. In his writings, he has dealt extensively with topics such as self, self-consciousness, intersubjectivity and social cognition. He is co-editor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.Zahavi is the author of a number of books, including: Intentionalität und Konstitution: Eine Einführung in Husserls Logische Untersuchungen. Museum Tusculanum Press 1992. Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität. Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996. (Translated into English). Self-awareness and Alterity. Northwestern University Press 1999. Husserl's Phenomenology. Stanford University Press 2003. (Translated into Danish, Japanese, Chinese, German, Greek, Italian, Croatian, Polish). Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the first-person perspective. MIT Press 2005. (Translated into Chinese). Phänomenologie für Einsteiger. Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2007. (Translated into Icelandic). The Phenomenological Mind (with Shaun Gallagher). Routledge 2008. (Translated into Hungarian, Italian, Danish, Japanese, Korean). The Phenomenological Mind. 2nd Edition (with Shaun Gallagher). Routledge 2012. (Translated into Spanish).Zahavi is also the editor of more than 10 volumes, including: The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology. Oxford University Press 2012. Zahavi has received a number of awards, including: 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). The award is given to outstanding young researchers of the highest international standard, which have made an extraordinary contribution to strengthen Danish research. The Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize (2011) from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. The prize was awarded in connection with the 200 year anniversary of brewer J.C. Jacobsen, founder of the Carlsberg Breweries and the Carlsberg Foundation. The second revised edition of The Phenomenological Mind was selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title. The Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Humanities Research Award (2013)Zahavi was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Danish Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in 2007
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1967-11-06
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1967
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