Academics

Ken Marable

Pronouns

He/him

Title

Visiting Instructor

Discipline

Philosophy

Educational Background

Ph.D. in progress, Philosophy, Michigan State University

B.A., Philosophy, Alma College (1995)

Rank

Visiting Instructor

My career at Alma began in

2011

Signature course(s):

Ethics and Medicine, Ethics and Business, Philosophy of Mind

Recent publications:

Piso, Z., Sertler, E., Malavisi, A., Marable, K., Jensen, E., Gonnerman, C., & O’Rourke, M. (2016). The production and reinforcement of ignorance in collaborative interdisciplinary research. Social Epistemology, 30(5-6), 643-664.

“Shared Dreaming and Extended Minds” in Inception and Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing (November 2011).

Latourette MT, Siebert JE, Barto RJ, Marable KL, Muyepa A., Hammond CA, Potchen MJ, Kampondeni SD, Taylor TE “Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Satellite-Based Networking Implementation”, Journal of Digital Imaging, 24(4):729-738, 2011.

Recent presentations:

“Epistemologies of Ignorance and Interdisciplinary Research,” (with C. Gonnerman, E. Jensen, A. Malavisi, M. O’Rourke, Z. Piso, & E. Sertler), First meeting of Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering, June 2014, University of Waterloo.

“Epistemologies of Ignorance and Interdisciplinary Research,” (with C. Gonnerman, E. Jensen, A. Malavisi, M. O’Rourke, Z. Piso, & E. Sertler), Fifth meeting of Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies, August 2014, University of Waterloo.

“Redeeming the Bald Naturalist: McDowell and Cognitive Science Methodology,” First Annual Grounding Thought Forming Values Conference, December 2010, Michigan State University.