Ken Gemes is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.
His primary interests are Nietzsche and philosophy of science.
Gemes earned his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990 with a dissertation in philosophy of science working with Clark Glymour and Wesley Salmon.
He taught at Yale University for ten years before moving to Birkbeck in 2000.
[1] Gemes's work has covered a wide range of philosophical issues, from technical concerns of logical content to Nietzsche's account of philosophy as the "last manifestation of the ascetic ideal".