Mark D. Tschaepe, Ph.D. (he/they)

Dr. Mark Tschaepe
Mark D. Tschaepe, Ph.D.  (he/they)
Professor of Philosophy
Program Coordinator for Philosophy and Geography

Contact Information

Professor of Philosophy
Program Coordinator for Philosophy and Geography
Research Faculty, SECURE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Office: 315 G.R. Woolfolk Social & Political Science Building
Phone: (936) 261-3216
Email: mdtschaepe@pvamu.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University)
  • M.A. (Gonzaga University)
  • B.A. (Loyola University of Chicago)

Selection of Courses Taught

  • Ethics
  • Critical Thinking

Selected Research Activities

Books

  • Tschaepe, Mark and Ronald E. Goodwin. The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of racism in the U.S. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2017.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Tschaepe, Mark. (forthcoming). Misfit Mutiny: Somaesthetic Discomfort against the Abjection, Oppression, and Exclusion of Normativity. Bodies of Politics, edited by Leszek Koczanowicz. Brill Press.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2023. Philosophical Tools for Educational Culture: Reconstructing Data and Assessment Practices. Contemporary Pragmatism. 20(1): 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10050
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2022. Somaesthetics of Discomfort and Wayfinding: Encouraging Inclusive Architectural Design. The Journal of Somaesthetics. 8(2): 44-56. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/article/view/7361
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2021. Data Without Democracy: The Cruel Optimism of Education Technology and Assessment. Education and Culture. 37(1): 7-24. docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol37/iss1/art3
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2021. Pragmatic Ethics for Generative Adversarial Networks: Coupling, Cyborgs, and Machine Learning. Contemporary Pragmatism. 18(1): 95-111. doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10005
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2021. Somaesthetics of Discomfort: Enhancing Awareness and Inquiry. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13(1). doi.org/10.4000/ejpap.2264
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2020. Seeing and Viewing Through a Postdigital Pandemic: Shifting from Physical Proximity to Scopic Mediation. Postdigital Science and Education doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00156-x
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2019. Humility and Inquiry: A response to Solymosi. Eidos: A Journal for the Philosophy of Culture. 1(7): 122-133. doi: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.000
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2018. Cultural Humility and Dewey’s Pattern of Inquiry: Developing Good Attitudes and Overcoming Bad Habits. Contemporary Pragmatism 15: 152-164. doi: 10.1163/18758185-01501007.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2018. Representations of Patients’ Experiences of Autonomy in Graphic Medicine. AMA Journal of Ethics February 20(2): 122-129. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.02.peer2-1802.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2016. Addressing Microaggressions and Epistemic Injustice: Flourishing from the Work of Audre Lorde. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 24(1): 87-101. doi: 10.1558/eph.31404.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2016. Undermining Dopamine Democracy through Education: Synthetic Situations, Social Media, and Incentive Salience. Pragmatism Today 7(1): 32-40.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2015. A Noxious Injustice as Punishment: Prisoner Sexual Violence, Toxic Masculinity, and the Ubuntu Ethic. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 23(1): 45-63. doi: 10.1558/eph.v23i1.27584.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2014. Guessing and Abduction. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy 50(1): 115-138.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2013. A Humanist Ethic of Ubuntu: Understanding Moral Obligation and Community. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 21(2): 47-61.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2013. Gradations of Guessing: Preliminary sketches and suggestions. Contemporary Pragmatism 10(2): 135-154.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2013. Reconsidering Philosophical Questions and Neuroscientific Answers: Two pillars of inquiry. Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly 23(4): 606-615.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2013. The Creative Moment of Scientific Apprehension: Understanding the Consummation of Scientific Explanation through Dewey and Peirce. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 5(1): 32-41.

Selected Service Activities

  • 2023  Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Somaesthetics
  • 2023  BCAS Post-tenure Review Committee, Prairie View A&M University
  • 2021  BCAS Mid-tenure Review Committee, Prairie View A&M University
  • 2021  Equity in Retention Committee, Prairie View A&M University
  • 2021  Faculty Representative and Participant, Equity in Retention Academy, Gardner Institute, Brevard, NC.
  • 2020  NCAA Gender Equity Committee, Prairie View A&M University
  • 2020-2021     Graduate Thesis/Dissertation/Dissertation Project Taskforce, Prairie View A&M University
  • 2019-2020     Nominating Committee Member, John Dewey Society