Dr. Hanne de Jaegher
University of the Basque Country
Visit(s): 
October - November 2013
Dr. Hanne de Jaegher has received a short-term fellowship in the context of the Anneliese-Maier award (Prof. Gallagher and Prof. Newen) to continue her research on the role of social interaction processes in intersubjectivity at the Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy of Cognitive Science in 2007 under the supervision of Andy Clark at the University of Sussex (title of her dissertation: “Social Interaction Rhythm and Participatory Sense-Making: An embodied, interactional approach to social understanding, with implications for autism”) and currently holds a position as a Research Fellow at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián. She is combining her expertise in the Philosophy of Mind with perspectives from philosophy of biology, psychology and cognitive science. She works on topics such as intersubjectivity, the relation between individual and interactional autonomy, participatory sense-making, enaction, autism and the interplay between those topics. Among her publications are “Can social interaction constitute social cognition?” (2010), Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 441-447 (co-authored with Shaun Gallagher and Ezequiel Di Paolo) and “Participatory Sense-Making: An enactive approach to social cognition” (2007), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485-507 (co-authored with Ezequiel Di Paolo).