Prof. Dan Zahavi

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1994 and his Dr.phil. (Habilitation) from University of Copenhagen in 1999. In 2000, Zahavi received the Ballard Prize in Phenomenology and was also awarded a prize by the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters for his research in phenomenology. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Elite Research Prize awarded by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Zahavi was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2007. He has served as president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology in the years 2001-2007, and is currently co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. In his systematic work, Zahavi has mainly been investigating the nature of selfhood, self-consciousness and intersubjectivity. He has authored and edited more than 20 books and written more than 100 articles. His writings have been translated into 14 languages. His most important publications include Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (Kluwer 1996), Self-awareness and Alterity (Northwestern University Press 1999), Husserl’s Phenomenology (Stanford University Press 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), and together with Shaun Gallagher The Phenomenological Mind (Routledge 2008). His most recent book publication is the co-edited volume Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions (Oxford University Press 2011).

Prof. László Tengelyi ^†

László Tengelyi^† is Full Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Phenomenology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. He studied philosophy, classical philology and history at the University of Budapest, Hungary. He spent long research stays in Leuven (as a Soros-scholar), in Wuppertal and Bochum (as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar), as well as in Paris (as an Andrew Mellon scholar), in Vienna and in Washington, D.C. He defended his doctoral thesis on Kant’s ethical writings (1986), his habilitation thesis on the problem of evil in post-Kantian philosophy (1995). His main field of interest and of competence is German and French phenomenology. Between 1993 and 1995, he was the president of the German Society of Phenomenology. He was guest professor in Poitiers, in Nizza, at the Sorbonne (University Paris I), in Memphis (Tennessee, USA) and in Quebec, Canada. Besides four books in Hungarian, he published Der Zwitterbegriff Lebensgeschichte (English version: The Wild Region in Life-History, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2004, French version: L’histoire d’une vie et sa région sauvage, J. Millon, Grenoble 2005), Expérience retrouvée (L’Harmattan, Paris 2006), Erfahrung und Ausdruck (Phaenomenologica-Reihe, Bd. 180, Springer, Dordrecht 2007) and, together with H. D. Gondek, Neue Phänomenologie in Frankreich (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2011).