Michael Butler

Philosophy of Technology, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science (esp. Embodied Cognition), Ethics, Continental Philosophy.

Selected Recent Publications:

Butler, M.  2024. “Fracturing the Affordance Space: An Account of Digitalized Alienation” Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol. 15 No. 1407586. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1407586

Butler, M. and Werkheiser, I. (eds) 2023 “Digital Worlds” special issue of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol. 27, No. 2.

Butler M.  2023. “Buying Green: A Trap For Fools, or, Sartre on Ethical Consumerism” in Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene, Matthew Ally and Damon Boria (eds). Lexington Books. 

Selected Recent Presentations:

September 2024. Machines that Dream of Love: Sartre, Gym Selfies, and the Alienation of Interior Life. Presented at the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Rochester Institute of Technology

April 2024. Navigation and the Extended Mind: EXPER: A Case Study, with Ian Werkheiser. Presented at the Digital Worlds Workshop, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

June 2022. On Mediated Memory: The Role of Journals and Images in Embodied Recollection. Presented at the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Texas State University

June 2021. An Enactive Approach to the Use of GPS: Extended Mind vs. Extended Perception, with Colin Graves (Applied Science and Computing, St. Lawrence College). Presented at the Society for Philosophy of Technology, Université Catholique de Lile

PhD (Philosophy) University of Memphis

MA (Philosophy) Toronto Metropolitan University

BA (Philosophy and Cultural Studies) Trent University