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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
Graduate Committee Associate Member
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

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2025. Discomforting the Binary: Genealogical and Somaesthetic Critiques of Sex Designation. Contemporary Pragmatism, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10106
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2023. Cruising Uncertainty: Queering Dewey against Heteronormativity. Pragmatism Today. 14(2): 59-71.
  • 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. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1781&context=eandc
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2021. Pragmatic Ethics for Generative Adversarial Networks: Coupling, Cyborgs, and Machine Learning. Contemporary Pragmatism. 18(1): 95-111. https://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). https://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. https://rdcu.be/d0k05
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2019. Humility and Inquiry: A response to Solymosi. Eidos: A Journal for the Philosophy of Culture.1(7): 122-133. https://doi:10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.000, https://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. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.2.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. [https://doi:10.1558/eph.31404]https://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. https://dx.doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.50.1.115
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2013. A Humanist Ethic of Ubuntu: Understanding Moral Obligation and Community. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 21(2): 47-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/eph.v21i2.47
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2013. Gradations of Guessing: Preliminary sketches and suggestions. Contemporary Pragmatism 10(2): 135-154. https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-90000263

Selected Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • Tschaepe, Mark and Mike Hunter. 2026. Traffic atmospheres and AI: Somaesthetics and levels of automation in transportation technology, in Somaesthetics of Atmosphere, edited by Richard Shusterman. Brill Press (forthcoming).
  • Douglas, C., Hunter, M., Tschaepe, M., Hautière, N., Drissi-Habti, M. 2026. The Role of Affordances in Autonomous Vehicle Technology Use Cases: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and France. In: Razminia, A., Nguyen, D.H., Holderbaum, W. (eds) Intelligent Technology for Future Transportation. ITFT 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-20592-6_9
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2024. Misfit Mutiny: Somaesthetic Discomfort against the Abjection, Oppression, and Exclusion of Normativity, in Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics, edited by Leszek Koczanowicz. Brill Press: 26-41.
  • Tschaepe, Mark. 2016. AIDS and Discrimination. In: Wayne Shandera (ed.): Expanding Our Calling: Social Ethics in Medical Education. Hauppauge, NY: Nova, pp. 61-74.

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