Michael E. Zimmerman

Michael E. Zimmerman (born 7 July 1946) is an integral theorist whose interests include Buddhism, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Ken Wilber. After a year as Assistant Professor at Denison University, he was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University from 1975 to 2005, and Director of the Institute for Humanities and the Arts at Tulane. He is also affiliated with the Integral Institute. Together with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens he wrote a book on integral ecology, Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. Since 2006 Zimmerman has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He additionally is a specialist on Martin Heidegger and has published a number of books with major university presses and many peer-reviewed articles on his work, and on other conventional philosophical topics.