Dan Zahavi

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Dan Zahavi (born 6 November 1967 in Copenhagen) is a Danish philosopher. He is Director of the Danish National Research Council'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 Husserl's Phenomenology, and Self-Awareness and Alterity, Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the first-person perspective and The Phenomenological Mind. Zahavi was awarded 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).