Michael Wheeler (philosopher)

{{Short description|British philosopher (born 1960)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Michael Wheeler | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Michael William Wheeler | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|11|5}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | spouse = | partner = | awards =  | alma_mater = [[University of Sussex]] | thesis_title = The Philosophy of Situated Activity | thesis_year = 1996 | era = [[Contemporary philosophy]] | region = [[Western philosophy]] | school_tradition = [[Continental philosophy]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Maggie Boden]] | academic_advisors = | workplaces = [[University of Stirling]] | doctoral_students =  | notable_students = | main_interests = {{hlist | [[Philosophy of mind]] | [[philosophy of science]]}} | notable_ideas = }} '''Michael William Wheeler''' (born 5 November 1960) is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of Stirling]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof Michael Wheeler |url=https://www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/prof-michael-wheeler |website=History of Distributed Cognition |date=6 November 2024 }}</ref> He is known for his Heideggerian approach to contemporary [[cognitive science]] research.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gallagher |first1=Shaun |title=Review of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step |journal=Mind |date=2007 |volume=116 |issue=463 |pages=792–796 |doi=10.1093/mind/fzm792 |jstor=30163552 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30163552 |issn=0026-4423|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Welchman |first1=Alistair |title=Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=2 February 2008 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/reconstructing-the-cognitive-world-the-next-step/ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Braver |first1=Lee |title=Heidegger and Cognitive Science, edited by Julian Kiverstein and Michael Wheeler. |journal=Mind |date=1 April 2014 |volume=123 |issue=490 |pages=616–619 |doi=10.1093/mind/fzu093 |url=https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/123/490/616/1280067?redirectedFrom=fulltext |issn=0026-4423|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert A. |title=Michael Wheeler, "Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step." |journal=Philosophy in Review |date=1 October 2006 |volume=26 |issue=5 |pages=386–388 |url=https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/6059 |language=en |issn=1920-8936}}</ref>

==Books== * ''Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step'' (2007) * ''Heidegger and Cognitive Science'' (2012) * ''[[Distributed cognition|Distributed Cognition]] in Medieval and Renaissance Culture'' (June 2019) * ''Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture'' (September 2019)

== See also ==

* [[Black Notebooks]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{cite web |last1=Wheeler |first1=Michael |title=Martin Heidegger |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/heidegger/ |website=[[The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, [[Stanford University]] |date=2011–2024}}

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