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English and Philosophy Faculty Stacey Ake

Discipline: Ethics, Semiotics, Existentialism

Degrees: Ph. D., Philosophy (Continental, Semiotics), The Pennsylvania State University (1999)
Ph. D., Biology (Genetics, Ecology, Anthropology), The Pennsylvania State University (1994)
MA, Philosophy (Semiotics), The Pennsylvania State University (1994)
BA, Biology (History, Spanish, Ecology) Houghton College (1985)

Office: 5040 MacAlister Hall
Phone: (215) 895-6819
Fax: (215) 895-1071
E-mail: sea29@drexel.edu

Dr. Ake's areas of research in philosophy are semiotics (Peirce, Percy), existentialism (Kierkegaard), existential ethics (Bonhoeffer), and theology (Chesterton, Derrida, MacDonald, Zizek). Her interests in biology include population genetics, evolutionary theory, and the co-evolution of bacterial pathogenicity and human immune response. Her interstitial interests include biosemiotics (Deacon, Emmeche, Hoffmeyer, Seboek, von Uexkull), the creation of a lived or existential philosophy of mind as found at the intersection of neuroscience and psychology (Damasio, Edelman, Ramachandran, Sacks), and the elucidation of a realetik vis-a-vis the biological and metabiological natures of human reality. She has been teaching since 1981.

Dr. Ake teaches several courses in the Department of English and Philosophy, including Aesthetics and Communication Ethics.