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Michael Wheeler Publications
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Book
Reconstructing the Cognitive World: the Next Step
MIT Press, 2005.
Co-Edited Collection
The Evolution of Cultural Entities
Co-edited with John Ziman and Margaret Boden.
British Academy / Oxford University Press, 2002.
Journal Papers and Book Chapters
Culture, Embodiment and Genes: Unravelling the Triple Helix
In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B, 363, 3563-75, 2008.
Cognition in Context: Phenomenology, Situated Robotics and the Frame Problem
In International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16(3),2008,323-49.
God’s Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind (2008)
To appear in Husbands, P., Holland, O. and Wheeler, M., eds. The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.307-330.
In Defence of Extended Functionalism
Draft of a chapter to appear in R. Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, MIT Press.
Minds, Things, and Materiality.
To appear in Renfrew C. and Malafouris L. (eds.), The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting the Boundaries of the Mind, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Publications, Cambridge.
To appear in Matthen, M., and Stephens C., (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology, Volume 3 of the Elsevier Handbook of the Philosophy of Science under the general editorship of Gabbay, D., Thagard, P., and Woods, J.. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Under Darwin's Cosh: Neo-Aristotelian Thinking in Environmental Ethics.
Philosophy, Special issue on Philosophy, Biology and Life, supplementary vol. 56, 2005, pp.259-89
Friends Reunited? Evolutionary Robotics and Representational Explanation.
Artificial Life, Special issue on Embodied and Situated Cognition.
Edited by F. Almeida e Costa and L. Mateus Rocha, 11: 1-3, 2005, pp.215-231.
Is Language the Ultimate Artefact?
In Language Sciences, Special issue on Distributed Cognition and Integrational Linguistics, Edited by D. Spurrett, 26:6, 2004, pp. 693-715.
The Grain of Domains: the Evolutionary-Psychological Case Against Domain-General Cognition.
Co-authored with Anthony Atkinson. I am second author.
Mind and Language, 19:2, 2004, pp.147-76.
Do Genes Code for Traits?
In A. Rojszczak, J. Cachro and G. Kurczewski (eds.), Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science: Selected Contributed Papers from the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Synthese Library vol. 320. Kluwer, 2003, pp.151-64.
Evolutionary Psychology's Grain Problem and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Reasoning
Co-authored with Anthony Atkinson. I am second author.
In D. Over (ed.) Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate. Psychology Press, 2003, pp.61-99.
Change in the Rules: Computers, Dynamical Systems, and Searle.
In J. Preston and M. Bishop (eds.) Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence. Clarendon / Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.338-59.
The View from Elsewhere: Perspectives on A-Life Modelling.
Co-authored with Seth Bullock (University of Leeds), Ezequiel Di Paolo (University of Sussex), Jason Noble (University of Leeds), Mark Bedau (Reed College, Portland, Oregon), Philip Husbands (University of Sussex), Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), and Anil Seth (The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California). I am first author.
Artificial Life, 8:1, 2002, pp. 87-100.
Two Threats to Representation.
Synthese, 129, 2001, pp. 211-31.
Domains, Brains and Evolution.
Co-authored with Anthony Atkinson. I am first author.
In D. M. Walsh (ed.), Naturalism, Evolution and Mind. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 239-66.
Genic Representation: Reconciling Content and Causal Complexity.
Co-authored with Andy Clark. I am first author.
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 50:1, 1999, pp. 103-135.
Explaining the Evolved: Homunculi, Modules, and Internal Representation.
In P. Husbands and J-A. Meyer (eds.) Evolutionary Robotics: Proceedings of the First European Workshop. Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp.87-107.
An Appeal for Liberalism, or why van Gelder's Notion of a Dynamical System is too Narrow for Cognitive Science. Peer commentary on a target article by Tim van Gelder entitled 'The Dynamical Hypothesis in Cognitive Science'.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21:5, 1998, pp.653-4.
Bringing Representation Back to Life.
Co-authored with Andy Clark. I am second author.
In R. Pfeifer, B. Blumberg, J-A. Meyer and S.W. Wilson (eds.) From Animals to Animats 5: the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press, 1998, pp.3-12.
Cognition's Coming Home: the Reunion of Life and Mind.
In P. Husbands and I. Harvey (eds.) The Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press, 1997, pp.10-19.
The Truth is Out There: the Evolution of Reliability in Aggressive Communication Systems.
Co-authored with Peter de Bourcier. I am second author.
In P. Husbands and I. Harvey (eds.) The Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press, 1997, pp.444-53.
From Robots to Rothko: the Bringing Forth of Worlds.
In M.A. Boden (ed.) The Philosophy of Artificial Life. Oxford University Press, 1996, pp.209-36. (This is a revised and extended version of the paper of the same title which is listed immediately below.)
From Robots to Rothko: the Bringing Forth of Worlds.
In C. Murath and S. Price (eds.) The World, the Image, and Aesthetic Experience. Interface, 1996, pp.7-26.
How Not To Murder Your Neighbor: Using Synthetic Behavioral Ecology to Study Aggressive Signaling.
Co-authored with Peter de Bourcier. I am first author.
Adaptive Behavior, 3:3, 1995, pp.273-309.
Escaping from the Cartesian Mind-Set: Heidegger and Artificial Life.
In F. Moran, A. Moreno, J.J. Merelo, and P. Chacon (eds.) Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life. Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp.65-76.
Aggressive Signaling Meets Adaptive Receiving: Further Experiments in Synthetic Behavioural Ecology.
Co-authored with Peter de Bourcier. I am second author.
In F. Moran, A. Moreno, J.J. Merelo, and P. Chacon (eds.) Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life. Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp.760-71.
Signalling and Territorial Aggression: an Investigation by Means of Synthetic Behavioural Ecology.
Co-authored with Peter de Bourcier. I am second author.
In D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J.-A. Meyer, and S.W. Wilson (eds.) From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press, 1994, pp.463-72.
From Activation to Activity: Representation, Computation and the Dynamics of Neural Network Control Systems.
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 87, 1994, pp.36-42.
Commentaries and Book Reviews
Review of Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method by D. Gillies
In Mind, 107:428, 1998, pp.882-6.
An Appeal for Liberalism, or why van Gelder's Notion of a Dynamical System is too Narrow for Cognitive Science
Peer commentary on a target article by Tim van Gelder entitled ‘The Dynamical Hypothesis in Cognitive Science’
In Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21:5, 1998, pp.653-4.
Is There a Crisis in the Science of Cognition?
Review essay presenting a critical comparison between The Representational and the Presentational by B. Shanon, and Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution by M. H. Bickhard and L. Terveen
In the British Journal of Psychology, 89, 1998, pp.347-51.
Review of Intelligent Behavior in Animals and Robots by D. McFarland and T. Bosser
In Philosophical Psychology, 8:4, 1995, pp.416-19.
Review of The Embodied Mind by F. Varela, E. Thompson and E. Rosch
In Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1994
Wider Access
Entry on John Searle in New Makers of Modern Culture, Routledge, Forthcoming.
Minds, Brains and Gases
The Philosophers' Magazine, 28, 4th Quarter, 2004
Don’t Let Technology Shape Our Thinking
Appeared as a ‘Podium’ piece in The Independent newspaper on 24th March 2000.
This was a written version of a talk entitled ‘Heidegger and the Encounter with Global Technology’ that I gave at the Hayward Gallery.