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Saturday, February 18, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM See all dates and Times
http://www.phact.org/meetings.php
Drexel Professor Stacy Ake will speak on bioethics and the evolution of consciousness. Dr. Ake's interests in biology include population genetics, evolutionary theory, and the co-evolution of bacterial pathogenicity. She has a PhD in biology and a MA and PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University. Her biology PhD was on the population dynamics and genetics of E. coli among several villages of Mexico. Dr. Ake's philosophy PhD was on the evolution of human consciousness, both phylogenically and ontogenically. She has taught philosophy courses in aesthetics, bioethics, existentialism, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of film, philosophy of science, anatomy and introductory neuroscience.
