Heiner Mühlmann (born 1938) is a German philosopher.
He studied art history and philosophy in Germany, France and Italy before he received his doctorate in 1981 with a dissertation on the Renaissance humanist Leon Battista Alberti.
He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary research project TRACE which uses neuroanthropology to study memory.
[1] Mühlmann's 1996 book The Nature of Cultures received considerable attention in the fields of systems theory, polemology, mediology and neurorhetorics upon its publication.
In it, he presents what he calls the Maximal-Stress-Cooperation (MSC) model, which attempts to explain the relationship between stress and the birth of cultural groups.