Implicit Narrativity Reading Group 2 (Mike Wheeler)

NCL Visiting Fellow Professor MIKE WHEELER will lead interdisciplinary conversations on Dings “The Dynamic and Recursive Interplay of Embodiment and Narrative Identity" as part of our termly investigation of ‘implicit narrativity’.

Join us online for an interdisciplinary roundtable!

Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His primary research interests are in philosophy of science (especially cognitive science, psychology, biology, and artificial intelligence) and philosophy of mind. In pursuing these interests, he often finds himself developing ideas at the interface between the analytic and the continental philosophical traditions. He has published widely on the nature of, and the prospects for, so-called 4E (embodied-embedded-extended-enactive) cognition, with a special focus on the subtle and complex ways in which human beings intimately couple with technology to transform, enhance, and sometimes impede psychological performance. His most recent research tries to bring 4E cognitive science into a mutually productive relationship with the arts and humanities. The notion of narrativity sits at the interface between literary theory, philosophy, and psychology (e.g., in debates over the fundamental nature of the self, and in accounts of our processes of self-interpretation, self-reflection, and self-management). The cross-disciplinary project of trying to ascertain the coherence and scope of the idea of implicit narrativity thus provides the opportunity for a concrete working-out of his current interests.

This event will be chaired by Dr Marco Bernini from the Narrative and Cognition Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.