Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College. He was Visiting Scientist at the Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology Unit, University of Cambridge in 1994. He is the author of Hermeneutics and Education and the co-editor (with Thomas W. Busch) of Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism, both published by SUNY Press.