Education – Experience – Publications

Personal info

Position	Associate Professor (Research) (2020–2023) Peter Wall Fellow (2021-2022)
Email	h.de.jaegher AT gmail DOT com
Website	hannedejaegher.net
Phone	+34 943 01 8878
Address	UPV/EHU, Department of Philosophy, Avenida de Tolosa 70, 20018 Donostia – San Sebastián

Summary

I’m a philosopher of mind and cognitive science. I am fascinated by how we think, work, and play (basically live and love) together. For studying our rich social lives, I ongoingly develop the enactive theory of intersubjectivity called participatory sense-making. Its concepts and empirical methods are being applied in, e.g., autism research, therapeutic practices, education research, ethics, psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. With Ezequiel Di Paolo and Elena Cuffari, I co-authored Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language (MIT Press, October 2018). My doctorate is from the University of Sussex (2007). I have held various Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships, and a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship.

Research interests

Intersubjectivity
Enaction
Autism
Loving and knowing – Engaged/engaging epistemologies
Interaction dynamics & coordination
Interactional & individual autonomy, heteronomy
Methods for investigating intersubjectivity
Phenomenology and sociology
Social pathologies

Education

2001 – 2007: D.Phil. Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, UK
1996 – 2001: Licentiate in Philosophy, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Experience

Associate Professor (Research) (2020–2023)
Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología (HEFA)
Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)

Wall Scholar (2021 – 2022)
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Traditional Territory, CA

Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow (2015 – 2020)
IAS Research Centre for Life, Mind, & Society
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), ES

Deputy Training Coordinator (2012 – 2014)
Marie Curie ITN TESIS
IAS Research Centre for Life, Mind, & Society
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), ES

Marie Curie IEF Fellow (2010 – 2012)
Interaction Dynamics and Autonomy in Social Cognition
IAS Research Centre for Life, Mind, & Society
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), ES

Experienced Researcher (2008 – 2010)
Marie Curie Research Training Network DISCOS
Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, DE

Publications

Books:

Di Paolo E A, Cuffari E C & De Jaegher H (2018) Linguistic Bodies. The Continuity Between Life and Language. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press
De Jaegher H (2018) Denken over liefde hoeft geen schrik aan te jagen. Antwerp, BE, Letterwerk
In progress: De Jaegher H Loving and Knowing

Journal papers:

De Jaegher, H (2023, in press) Cognitive science today, what is it to you? Journal of Consciousness Studies
Bervoets, J., Beljaars, D., & De Jaegher, H. (2023). Letting Tourette’s be: The importance of understanding lived experience in research and the clinic. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 65(11), 1422–1428.
Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F.K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C.D., Enfield, N.J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Reddy, V., Rossano, F., Schlangen, D., Seibt, J., Stokoe, E., Suchman, L., Vesper, C., Wheatley, T. and Wiltschko, M. (2023). Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. Cognitive Science, 47(1), e13230. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230
De Jaegher H & Preiser R (2022). Breaking New Ground Through Participatory Sense-Making in Place. Constructivist Foundations, 17(3), 190-192.
Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2022) Enactive ethics: Difference becoming participation. Topoi. 41(2), pages 241–256. doi:10.1007/s11245-021-09766-x.
Sivertsen, M., De Jaegher, H., Alstadhaug, K. B., Arntzen, E. C., & Normann, B. (2022). The precarity of patient participation – a qualitative interview study of experiences from the acute stroke and rehabilitation journey. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 1-16. doi:10.1080/09593985.2022.2140319
Sivertsen M De Jaegher H Arntzen EC Alstadhaug KB & B Normann (2022) Embodiment, tailoring, and trust are important for co-construction of meaning in physiotherapy after stroke: A qualitative study. Physiotherapy Research International, n/a(n/a), e1948. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/pri.1948
De Jaegher H (2022) Door elkaar. Filosofie Tijdschrift, 32(2)
García E, Di Paolo E, & De Jaegher H (2022) Embodiment in online psychotherapy: A qualitative study. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 95(1), 191-211 https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12359.
De Jaegher H (2021) Loving and knowing. Reflections for an engaged epistemology. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 20(5), pp. 847–870, doi:10.1007/s11097-019-09634-5 (pdf)
De Jaegher H (2021, online first) Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions. Transcultural Psychiatry.
Candiotto L & De Jaegher H (2021) Love In-Between. The Journal of Ethics, DOI: 10.1007/s10892-020-09357-9
Cuffari E, Di Paolo E, & De Jaegher H (2021) Letting language be: reflections on enactive method. Filosofia Unisinos – Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, 22(1), 117–124. doi: 10.4013/fsu.2021.221.14.
Martínez Quintero A & De Jaegher H (2020) Pregnant Agencies: Movement and Participation in Maternal–Fetal Interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(1977). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01977
Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2019) Microphenomenology of first encounters: A sympathetic critique. Constructivist Foundations 14(2): 185–187.
Fletcher-Watson S, De Jaegher H, van Dijk J, Frauenberger C, Magnée M & Ye J (2018) Diversity computing. ACM Interactions, 25(5), 28–33.
De Jaegher H, Pieper B, Clénin D & Fuchs T (2017) Grasping intersubjectivity: an invitation to embody social interaction research. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16(3), (491–523). doi: 10.1007/s11097-016-9469-8
De Jaegher H (2016) Deelnemend zin-geven. Een wetenschappelijke basis voor genuanceerde interacties. Systeemtheoretisch Bulletin, 34(2), 121-138.
De Jaegher H, Peräkylä A & Stevanovic M (2016) The co-creation of meaningful action: Bridging enaction and interactional sociology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371: 20150378.
De Jaegher H, Di Paolo E & Adolphs R (2016) What does the Interactive Brain Hypothesis mean for Social Neuroscience? A dialogue. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371: 20150379.
De Jaegher H (2016) Intersubjectivity in the study of experience. Constructivist Foundations, 11, 393-395.
De Jaegher H (2015) How we affect each other. Michel Henry’s “pathos-with” and the enactive approach to intersubjectivity. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21(1-2), 112-132.
Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2015) Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: Widening the scope of social understanding research. [Editorial]. Frontiers in Psychology, 6.
Cuffari E, Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2015) From participatory sense-making to language: There and back again. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 14(4), 1089-1125. doi: 10.1007/s11097-014-9404-9
Fantasia V, De Jaegher H & Fasulo A (2014) We can work it out: An enactive look at cooperation. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00874
Di Paolo E, De Jaegher H & Gallagher S (2013) One step forwards, two steps back – not the Tango: comment on Gallotti and Frith. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(7), 303-304. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.05.003
De Jaegher H (2013) Embodiment and sense-making in autism. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 7(15), doi: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00015
De Jaegher H (2013) Rigid and fluid interactions with institutions. Cognitive Systems Research 25-26 (0), 19-25. doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.03.002
McGann M, De Jaegher H & Di Paolo E (2013) Enaction and psychology. Review of General Psychology, 17(2), 203-209. doi:10.1037/a0032935
De Jaegher H & Di Paolo E (2013) Enactivism is not interactionism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6(345). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00345
Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2012) The interactive brain hypothesis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6(163) doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00163
De Jaegher H, Di Paolo E & Gallagher S (2010) Can social interaction constitute social cognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 441-447. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.06.009
De Jaegher H & Froese T (2009) On the role of social interaction in individual agency. Adaptive Behavior, 17(5), 444-460.
Fuchs T & De Jaegher H (2009) Enactive Intersubjectivity: Participatory sense-making and mutual incorporation. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 8(4), 465-486.
[Translated into Japanese by Prof. Shogo Tanaka. In Philosophy of Disability & Coexistence: Body, Narrative, and Community. Kohji Ishihara and Minae Inahara (Eds.) UTCP-Uehiro Booklet 2, pp.193-221) Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2013]
McGann M & De Jaegher H (2009) Self-Other Contingencies: Enacting Social Perception. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 8(4), 417-437.
[See also the special issue on participatory sense-making in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2009).]
De Jaegher H (2009) Social understanding through direct perception? Yes, by interacting. Consciousness and Cognition, 18(2), 535-542.
De Jaegher H (2009) What made me want the cheese? A reply to Shaun Gallagher and Dan Hutto. Consciousness and Cognition, 18(2), 549-550.
De Jaegher H & Di Paolo E (2007) Participatory Sense-Making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485-507.

Edited Special Issue (also eBook):

Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2015) Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity: Widening the Scope of Social Understanding Research, Lausanne: Frontiers Media, 2015.

Book chapters:

De Jaegher H (2018) The intersubjective turn. In: Newen A, Gallagher S & de Bruin L (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended, Oxford University Press. pp. 453–468.
Schiavio A & De Jaegher H (2017) Participatory sense-making in joint musical practice. In: Lesaffre M, Maes P-J & Leman M (eds.) Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction, London: Routledge
Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2017) Neither individualistic, nor interactionist. In: Durt C, Fuchs T & Tewes C (eds.) Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture—Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
De Jaegher H (2014) “Enacción y autonomía: cómo el mundo social cobra sentido mediante la participación” Autonomía con otros. Ensayos sobre bioética, ed. Casado da Rocha A. Plaza y Valdés, Madrid, pp. 111-131
De Haan S, De Jaegher H, Fuchs T & Mayer A (2011) Expanding perspectives: The interactive development of perspective-taking in early childhood. In: Tschacher W, and Bergomi C (eds.) The implications of embodiment. Cognition and communication, pp.129-150. Imprint Academic, Exeter
Di Paolo E, Rohde M, and De Jaegher H (2010) Horizons for the enactive mind: Values, social interaction, and play. In Stewart J, Gapenne, O & Di Paolo E (Eds.), Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
De Jaegher H (2010) Enaction versus representation: an opinion piece. In Fuchs T, Sattel H & Henningsen P (Eds.), The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders. Stuttgart: Schattauer.
Fuchs T, and De Jaegher H (2010) Non-representational intersubjectivity. In Fuchs T, Sattel H & Henningsen P (Eds.), The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders. Stuttgart: Schattauer.
De Jaegher H, and Fuchs T (2010) Meaning, subjectivity and coordination. In Fuchs T, Sattel H & Henningsen P (Eds.), The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders. Stuttgart: Schattauer.
De Jaegher H, and Di Paolo E (2008) Making sense in participation. An enactive approach to social cognition. In Morganti F, Carassa A & Riva G (Eds.), Enacting Intersubjectivity: A Cognitive and Social Perspective to the Study of Interactions. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Book reviews:

- - De Jaegher H (2009) “Not a single story about intersubjectivity. Review of Vasu Reddy’s How Infants Know Minds.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17(1-2), 240-244

Interviews:

- - Di Paolo E & De Jaegher H (2012) “Sense-making with Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher.” Avant, 3(2), 147-159

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