Professor of Philosophy
Prairie View A&M University
Houston, Texas, United States
Mark Dietrich Tschaepe, PhD (they/them) is Professor of Philosophy and Program Coordinator for Philosophy and Geography at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. For the past three years, they created the core courses and acted as Program Coordinator for the General Studies Program at PV. Mark is also responsible for teaching one of two Honors Colloquia every year, which is devoted to studying the history of race and racism using art, literature, fashion, and philosophy. Each year, the students of Mark's colloquium create an artwork to help communicate concepts from the course they find compelling. The students display and discuss their art with the campus community every year at their own Art Opening, which Mark has conducted with the Honors Program since 2019. In Spring 2023, Mark was the recipient of the Mellon Outstanding Professor Award for Scholarly Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Mellon Center for Teaching Excellence at PV. Currently, while on sabbatical, they are a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University.
Their publication record includes essays in Education and Culture, The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Contemporary Pragmatism, Pragmatism Today, The Journal of Somaesthetics, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Postdigital Science & Education, Eidos, Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, and various other collections. Mark has published and presented scholarly work on a wide range of topics, including philosophy of education, philosophy of science and technology, bioethics and medical ethics, data and AI ethics, gender and sexuality, and somaesthetics.
Their research grants have included funding from the USDA for research concerning stigma and discrimination that targets persons living with HIV in rural areas, funding from NSA for developing an Ethics of Cybersecurity course, NSF funding for developing a Bioethics course, and recently a Texas Higher Education Board grant for enhancing online learning options for more inclusive education. Their most recent grant is from Ford Motor Co. and involves collaboration with engineering faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology on a project concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations in designing autonomous vehicles. Currently, Mark is completing their manuscript, Somaesthetics of Discomfort: Addressing Identity, Normativity, and Alienation, which will be published in the Studies in Somaesthetics Series for Brill Press. They are the co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Somaesthetics and the philosophy editor for Bridge Journal (bridge-chicago.org). For five years, Mark was a Board Director for AIDS Foundation Houston and co-chair of their steering committee. For four years, they taught the course, Health and Human Rights, to first-year medical students at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Wayne Shandera, and Mark has presented guest lectures on medicine and microaggressions to various medical schools and organizations in the U.S. and South Africa. In 2017, Mark co-authored the textbook, The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of racism in the U.S. (Kendall Hunt), with their historian colleague, Ronald Goodwin.
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Mapping the Equity Implications of Autonomous Vehicle Technology by Level of Automation
Monday, June 17, 2024
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