Shogo Tanaka, PhD Professor of Psychology and Philosophy Tokai University
Shogo Tanaka is a Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Tokai University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. in philosophical psychology from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Dr. Tanaka's primary research interests lie in phenomenology and psychology, with a particular focus on elucidating the theoretical foundations of psychology through the lens of embodiment, drawing inspiration from the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
His publications cover a wide range of topics, including body schema, body image, skill acquisition, the embodied self, social cognition, theory of mind, and intercorporeality. From 2013 to 2014 and again from 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he conducted research on phenomenology, psychology, and psychopathology.
His recent publications include Body Schema and Body Image: New Directions (Oxford University Press, co-edited with Yochai Ataria and Shaun Gallagher), among others.