Mike Sandbothe is co-founder of the new branch of media philosophy/médiologie and one of the main proponents of philosophical pragmatism in Europe. He is living and working in Denmark and Germany. As a nice little attunement he recommends Sogyal Rinpoche's Rest in Natural Great Peace.
Recent news:
- Habermas, Pragmatism, and the Media. An Interview with Mike Sandbothe, sandbothe.net 2008. [online text]
- Media and Knowledge. Some Pragmatist Remarks about Media Philosophy within and beyond the Limits of Epistemology, sandbothe.net 2008. [online text]
- Witnessing the Meta-Philosophical Storm. Some Pragmatist Remarks, Paper given at the Workshop „Witnessing: Cultural Roots, Media-Related Forms and Cultural Memory“, Research Symposium, 27-30 April 2008, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy. [online text] [photos]
- Alain Apaloo (invited by Mike Sandbothe): Information, Helsinki University August 2007.
- Pragmatic Media Philosophy. Foundations of a New Discipline in the Internet Age, sandbothe.net 2005 (German original appeared as "Pragmatische Medienphilosophie. Grundlegung einer neuen Disziplin im Zeitalter des Internet", Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2001). [more information and pdf download]
Recommended secondary literature:
- Jan Janzen: "Theories as Tools - Mike Sandbothe's Pragmatist Media Philosophy", sandbothe.net 2007 (German original: "Theorien zu Werkzeugen", in: Medientheorien. Eine philosophische Einführung, hrsg. von Alice Lagaay und David Lauer, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus 2004, S. 273-295).
- Mats Bergmann: "The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Research", in: Nordicom Review 2/2008 (pre-publication in: sandbothe.net 2007).
- Reinhard Margreiter: Medienphilosophie. Eine Einführung, Berlin: Parerga 2007 (espec. S. 201-207).