Mike Sandbothe

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Mike Sandbothe (born June 26, 1961) is a German philosopher and professor who studies culture and media. He teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Jena and helped start a new branch of media philosophy. He is one of Europe’s main supporters of philosophical pragmatism. He has held professorships in Media Culture Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in Media Philosophy at Berlin University of the Arts, and at Aalborg University Copenhagen. He is a certified trainer in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and helped found the German Network of Mindful Universities, Achtsame Hochschulen. His English books include The Temporalization of Time (2001; German 1998), The Pragmatic Turn (2004), Pragmatic Media Philosophy (2005; German 2001), and From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics (2013). His recent work covers Mindful Universities, Healthy Teaching and Learning, and Pragmatism as Cultural Politics. Since 2020, he has been part of the Erasmus+ program Training Embodied Critical Thinking. He lives in Erfurt with his wife and children.