Dr. Stacey Ake

Assistant Professor,
English & Philosophy

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

Research Interests: 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.

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