Will Wheeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 200522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Wheeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheeler |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3654-9367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interview on biosemiotic ethics with Wendy Wheeler
In this interview, Wendy Wheeler, London Metropolitan University Emerita Professor of English Literature and Cultural Inquiry, discusses her thoughts on biosemiotics and its relevance for ethics. In Wheeler’s perspective, biosemiotics can ground ethics because it offers an alternative and fitting ontology of relations. She shares her thoughts on Peirce as a foundational figure for biosemiotics, and explains why she doubts that an ecological ethic…
The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics
The carrying: Material frames and immaterial meanings
Jakob von Uexküll Lecture; University of Tartu, 30 April 2014
Of Birds and Hands
Tom Tyler, Ciferae: A Bestiary in Five Fingers, (Posthumanities series no 19) Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 376pp; 22.50[pounds sterling] paperback, 67.50[pounds sterling] hardback Tom Tyler's Ciferae: A Bestiary in Five Fingers is playful philosophy with a serious purpose. One imagines from his book's pragmaticist arguments that Tyler would dispute that there is any other meaningful kind. It joins that now rapidly growing fie…
The Animals Turn
The development of a new field of study is very often just as much about a creative meaning-generation, obliging us to think in new ways (to evolve one might say), as it is simply or only about the objects of study themselves. A semiotic view of such an evolution of human knowledge would speak of this in terms of sign-objects which, in engendering new interpretants, grow the endless spiral of semiosis (i.e. knowledge) further. (1) Nonetheless, th…
The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
In this ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory, Wendy Wheeler draws on the new field of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that - far from being opposed to nature - culture is the way that nature has evolved in human beings. Her argument is that these evolutionary processes reveal the fundamental sociality of human creatures, and she thus rejects the selfish individualism that is implied both in the…
Emerging Organizational Theory and the Youth Development Organization
Management and organizational theories have undergone a significant transformation in the last decade. Amid changes that have been developing since the mid-20th century in technology, the global economy, and social structures and patterns, forward-thinking leaders in the corporate world have begun to realize they must depart from established practice and embrace a new paradigm. This new way includes management and operational structures that are …
Postmodern Ethics
Post Industrial Fiddle
The carrying: Material frames and immaterial meanings
Jakob von Uexküll Lecture; University of Tartu, 30 April 2014
Post Industrial Fiddle
Postmodern Ethics
Emerging Organizational Theory and the Youth Development Organization
Management and organizational theories have undergone a significant transformation in the last decade. Amid changes that have been developing since the mid-20th century in technology, the global economy, and social structures and patterns, forward-thinking leaders in the corporate world have begun to realize they must depart from established practice and embrace a new paradigm. This new way includes management and operational structures that are …
The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
In this ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory, Wendy Wheeler draws on the new field of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that - far from being opposed to nature - culture is the way that nature has evolved in human beings. Her argument is that these evolutionary processes reveal the fundamental sociality of human creatures, and she thus rejects the selfish individualism that is implied both in the…
The Animals Turn
The development of a new field of study is very often just as much about a creative meaning-generation, obliging us to think in new ways (to evolve one might say), as it is simply or only about the objects of study themselves. A semiotic view of such an evolution of human knowledge would speak of this in terms of sign-objects which, in engendering new interpretants, grow the endless spiral of semiosis (i.e. knowledge) further. (1) Nonetheless, th…
Of Birds and Hands
Tom Tyler, Ciferae: A Bestiary in Five Fingers, (Posthumanities series no 19) Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 376pp; 22.50[pounds sterling] paperback, 67.50[pounds sterling] hardback Tom Tyler's Ciferae: A Bestiary in Five Fingers is playful philosophy with a serious purpose. One imagines from his book's pragmaticist arguments that Tyler would dispute that there is any other meaningful kind. It joins that now rapidly growing fie…
The carrying: Material frames and immaterial meanings
Jakob von Uexküll Lecture; University of Tartu, 30 April 2014
The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics
Interview on biosemiotic ethics with Wendy Wheeler
In this interview, Wendy Wheeler, London Metropolitan University Emerita Professor of English Literature and Cultural Inquiry, discusses her thoughts on biosemiotics and its relevance for ethics. In Wheeler’s perspective, biosemiotics can ground ethics because it offers an alternative and fitting ontology of relations. She shares her thoughts on Peirce as a foundational figure for biosemiotics, and explains why she doubts that an ecological ethic…
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biosemiotics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Semiotics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works)