Dr. Zahavi was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 1st, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews
Dan Zahavi is a Professor in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, where he specializes in the social dimension of self-experience; the nature of empathy and its relevance for social cognition; the relation between phenomenology and naturalism; selfhood and unity of consciousness with particular focus on no-self doctrines. He is the director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Subjectivity Research and has taught at a number of post-secondary institutions, including The University of Central Florida, The State University of New York. He is the author of numerous books, including one on Edmund Husserl.