Michael Wheeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 77312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Wheeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheeler |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3638-1215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Liveness Plus in Political Virtual Reality Performance
The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845
What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe, the threat of mass insurrection at home and radical developments in railway transport, communications, religion, literature and the arts. The effects of the new poor law now became visible i…
Fact, Fiction, and Negotiation: Deepak Malhotra's The Peacemaker's Code
Introduction to Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club
When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated the agenda. The club, with its tradition of hospitality to conflicting views, has attracted leading scientists, writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout its history, including Charles Darwin an…
‘The most eminent persons in the land’
This chapter evaluates the members of the Athenæum. Police magistrate and author Thomas Walker believed that among the members of the Athenæum 'are to be reckoned a large proportion of the most eminent persons in the land in every line, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, peers spiritual and temporal, commoners, men of the learned professions, those connected with science, the arts, and commerce in all its principal branches, as well as the dist…
Culture wars
This chapter describes how the defining values and characteristics of the Athenæum are thrown into sharper relief during the First World War than in the previous ninety years. Like other clubs and institutions, the Athenæum suffered losses and contributed to the war effort as best it could, through corporate donations and by adhering to wartime regulations. More unusually, and possibly uniquely, its long-established tradition of attracting member…
‘A score of grave gentlemen’
This chapter explores the experience of club membership at the Athenæum. In 1835, Thomas Walker described Decimus Burton's clubhouse as a 'sort of palace', kept 'with the same exactness and comfort as a private dwelling', in which 'every member is a master, without any of the trouble of a master'. Individual breaches of the club's rules tended to be treated leniently by the General Committee. By the time that Walker wrote his rhapsodic descriptio…
A roomful of Owls
This chapter explores how the Athenians' reputation for 'reserve and dignity' was sustained throughout the 1920s and 1930s, when a particular breed of highly educated and deeply serious members played leading roles in club life. Political decisions on national reconstruction were often based upon reports from advisory groups of the kind that had been needed during the war, and again many members of the club served as expert advisors in a wide ran…
‘They have built a perfect palace’
This chapter examines why it took the Athenæum so long to build a clubhouse of its own. First, a potential site considered by the Committee in 1824 failed to meet their requirements. Then another site proved to be less attractive than a third option, which in turn remained unavailable until 1826. Planning complications associated with this excellent site on Pall Mall delayed the approval of Decimus Burton's proposed elevations, which later had to…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa
The Luck Factor in Negotiation
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
The reappearing tool: Transparency, smart technology, and the extended mind
Some thinkers have claimed that expert performance with technology is characterized by a kind of disappearance of that technology from conscious experience, that is, by the transparency of the tools and equipment through which we sense and manipulate the world. This is a claim that may be traced to phenomenological philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, but it has been influential in user interface design where the transparency of tech…
The Recent Engagement Between Analytic Philosophy and Heideggerian Thought: Metaphysics and Mind
Martin Heidegger is a towering figure in the history of continental philosophy, but his work has recently been brought into productive engagement with analytic philosophy. This paper introduces and explores two channels along which such engagement has been taking place. The first is in metaphysics, where Heideggerian thought has been interpreted either as making the metaphysical concept of being literally senseless or as mandating a revision to c…
Reinventing the Reformation in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael WheelerMichael Wheeler is an independent scholar, writer and lecturer, and a Visiting Professor of English at the University of Southampton. His books include Heaven, Hell and the Victorians (Cambridge University Press), Ruskin's God (Cambridge University Press), The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Cambridge University Press) and St John and the Victori…
La quatrième voie. Une analyse du projet d’« Ingénierie philosophique » de Halpin
Wheeler Michael, Declerck Gunnar. La quatrième voie. Une analyse du projet d’« Ingénierie philosophique » de Halpin. In: Intellectica. Revue de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive, n°61, 2014/1. Philosophie du Web et Ingénierie des Connaissances. pp. 261-269
A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland
Heidegger and Cognitive Science
St John and the Victorians
In Defense of Extended Functionalism
This chapter aims to clarify the relationship between the extended cognition hypothesis (ExC) and functionalism, and to defend extended functionalism against three of its strongest criticisms. ExC claims that there are conditions under which thinking and thoughts are spatially distributed over the brain, body, and world in such a way that the external factors concerned are rightly accorded cognitive status. It is concerned mainly with the whereab…
What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators
The Brooklyn Traffic Real-Time Ambient Pollutant Penetration and Environmental Dispersion (B-TRAPPED) field study methodology
The Brooklyn Traffic Real-Time Ambient Pollutant Penetration and Environmental Dispersion (B-TRAPPED) field study examined indoor and outdoor exposure to traffic-generated air pollution by studying the individual processes of generation of traffic emissions, transport and dispersion of air contaminants along a roadway, and infiltration of the contaminants into a residence. Real-time instrumentation was used to obtain highly resolved time-series c…
Is language the ultimate artefact
Two Threats To Representation
Regional Consensus on Affordable Housing: Yes in My Backyard
The traditional response to exclusionary zoning has been state preemption through judicial intervention or special zoning appeals laws. An analysis of two recent Connecticut cases suggests a promising alternative: explicit intermunicipal negotiation over "fair share" compacts. These negotiations took place under new enabling legislation and with strong support of state housing officials and were facilitated by outside mediators. In spite of the s…
No-Fault Divorce
No-Fault Divorce
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America
Utopia
Regional Consensus on Affordable Housing: Yes in My Backyard
The traditional response to exclusionary zoning has been state preemption through judicial intervention or special zoning appeals laws. An analysis of two recent Connecticut cases suggests a promising alternative: explicit intermunicipal negotiation over "fair share" compacts. These negotiations took place under new enabling legislation and with strong support of state housing officials and were facilitated by outside mediators. In spite of the s…
Is there a crisis in the science of cognition
Two Threats To Representation
The Evolution of Cultural Entities
Ever since Charles Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms, and theories seem to ‘evolve’ through sequences of variation, selection and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. This book considers whether this comparison is ‘just a metaphor’, or whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains. The ‘evolutionary paradigm of rationality’ h…
Is language the ultimate artefact
Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step
In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and shows how each of these principles is part of the deep assumptions of or…
Cracking the Code: Winchester Cathedral and The Da Vinci Code
The Brooklyn Traffic Real-Time Ambient Pollutant Penetration and Environmental Dispersion (B-TRAPPED) field study methodology
The Brooklyn Traffic Real-Time Ambient Pollutant Penetration and Environmental Dispersion (B-TRAPPED) field study examined indoor and outdoor exposure to traffic-generated air pollution by studying the individual processes of generation of traffic emissions, transport and dispersion of air contaminants along a roadway, and infiltration of the contaminants into a residence. Real-time instrumentation was used to obtain highly resolved time-series c…
In Defense of Extended Functionalism
This chapter aims to clarify the relationship between the extended cognition hypothesis (ExC) and functionalism, and to defend extended functionalism against three of its strongest criticisms. ExC claims that there are conditions under which thinking and thoughts are spatially distributed over the brain, body, and world in such a way that the external factors concerned are rightly accorded cognitive status. It is concerned mainly with the whereab…
What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators
St John and the Victorians
Heidegger and Cognitive Science
Reinventing the Reformation in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael WheelerMichael Wheeler is an independent scholar, writer and lecturer, and a Visiting Professor of English at the University of Southampton. His books include Heaven, Hell and the Victorians (Cambridge University Press), Ruskin's God (Cambridge University Press), The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Cambridge University Press) and St John and the Victori…
La quatrième voie. Une analyse du projet d’« Ingénierie philosophique » de Halpin
Wheeler Michael, Declerck Gunnar. La quatrième voie. Une analyse du projet d’« Ingénierie philosophique » de Halpin. In: Intellectica. Revue de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive, n°61, 2014/1. Philosophie du Web et Ingénierie des Connaissances. pp. 261-269
A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland
The Recent Engagement Between Analytic Philosophy and Heideggerian Thought: Metaphysics and Mind
Martin Heidegger is a towering figure in the history of continental philosophy, but his work has recently been brought into productive engagement with analytic philosophy. This paper introduces and explores two channels along which such engagement has been taking place. The first is in metaphysics, where Heideggerian thought has been interpreted either as making the metaphysical concept of being literally senseless or as mandating a revision to c…
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
The reappearing tool: Transparency, smart technology, and the extended mind
Some thinkers have claimed that expert performance with technology is characterized by a kind of disappearance of that technology from conscious experience, that is, by the transparency of the tools and equipment through which we sense and manipulate the world. This is a claim that may be traced to phenomenological philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, but it has been influential in user interface design where the transparency of tech…
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club
When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated the agenda. The club, with its tradition of hospitality to conflicting views, has attracted leading scientists, writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout its history, including Charles Darwin an…
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