ANDREW N. CARPENTER
1290 LAUREL LN
WESTMINSTER, MD 21158
(312) 285-0296
andy @ andrewcarpenter . net 

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
Ph.D., Philosophy, 1998 (Comprehensive exams in Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy. Dissertation: “Kant's Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem.”)

University of Oxford
B.Phil., 1990 (Comprehensive exams in Kant, The Political Philosophies of Hegel and Marx, Philosophy of Logic and Language. Thesis: “Transcendental Arguments and Transcendental Idealism.”)

Amherst College
B.A., Philosophy, summa cum laude, 1988

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

"The Benefits of Philosophical Analysis for Criminological Research, Pedagogy, and Practice" with Craig N. Bach in Professional Issues in Criminal Justice 2 (2006), 3-16.

“Davidson's Transcendental Argumentation: Externalism, Interpretation, and the Veridicality of Belief,” in From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, ed. Jeff Malpas (Routledge,  2003), 219-237.

“Kant's Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem” in Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung, ed. Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, and Ralph Shumacher (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2001),  3-12.

"Davidson's Externalism and the Unintelligibility of Massive Error," Disputatio 4 (1998), 25-45.

“Kant's (Problematic) Account of Empirical Concepts,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, Vol. II (1995), 227-234.

“Truth and Reference: Some Doubts About Formal Semantics,” Theoria et Historia Scientiarum 2 (1992), 37-53.

 

INTERNET AND NEW MEDIA (PEER-REVIEWED)

"Western Philosophy" (updated and revised entry), in Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia and Online Reference Library, 2002.

“Kant, the Body, and Knowledge” in The Paideia Project Online: Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, edited by Stephen Dawson, 2000.

Regular reports on contemporary research and pedagogy in “Early Modern Philosophy Update,” in Philosophy News Service, edited by Richard Jones, 1999 – 2000.

“Guided Tour of Kant's Philosophy of Mind,” in A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, general editor Marco Nani, 1999.

Entry on “Kant's Philosophy of Mind” in The Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind, edited by Chris Eliasmith, 1999.

 

PEDAGOGY

"Online Discussion and the 'Place' of Learning," forthcoming in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy.

“Using RealAudio Multimedia Content in the Philosophy Classroom,” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 100 (2000), 10-11.

"Using the Internet in the Philosophy Classroom,” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 98 (1998), 33-34.

 

REVIEWS

Review of  Steve Fuller's  Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Social Epistemology 17 (2003),  139.

Review of Martin Schönfeld's The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Pre-Critical Project. Kantian Review 4 (2000), 113-116.

Review of Anthony Kenny's Brief History of Western Philosophy. Disputatio 7 (1999), 58-63.

Review of Susan Meld Shell's The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community. Kantian Review 2 (1998), 134-143.

Published in Teaching Philosophy 22-24 (1999-2001): Kerry Walters and Lisa Portmess, eds., Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer; Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, ed., Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader; Robin May Schott, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant.

Published in The Antioch Review 57-60 (1999-2002): Steve Fuller's Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times; Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy; John Rawls' The Law of Peoples; Samuel Freeman, ed., Collected Papers: John Rawls; Parker J. Palmer's The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life; and seven other books of philosophy, religion, science, history, politics, or pedagogy.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Fifty-five presentations including:

“The Benefits of Philosophical Analysis for Criminological Research, Pedagogy, and Practice,” presented with Craig M. Bach to the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2008.

"Teaching Without Texts," delivered to the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, April 2007.

Panelist on “Criminal Justice Education in Cyberspace: Maintaining Academic Integrity in an On-Line Environment,” presented to the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Seattle, Washington, March 2007.

Panelist on “The Place of Teaching in Your Life as a New Faculty Member in Philosophy,” presented to the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Washington DC, December 2006.

“A Shared Vision of Shared Governance,” delivered with David Harpool and John LaNear to the Kaplan University Faculty Retreat, Chicago, Illinois, June 2006.

“Relating Academic Freedom to the Application of Tenure,” delivered with William Weston to the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2006.

“Supporting the Least Advantaged: Kaplan University’s Progressive Educational Mission,” delivered to the Kaplan University Faculty Retreat, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 2006.

“Structuring Communication to Build On-line Communities,” delivered with Jon Eads, Ellen Manning, Melinda Roberts, and Kara VanDam to the Eleventh Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, Florida, November 2005.

“Faculty Life Within a Highly Centralized Curriculum: A New Conception of Faculty Freedom and Autonomy,” delivered to the Kaplan University Faculty Retreat, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 2005.

“Alternative Instructional Materials: A Case Study,” delivered to the Tenth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, Florida, November 2004.

“A Multi-Faceted Approach to Online Faculty Training and Development,” delivered with Kara VanDam and Melinda Roberts to the Tenth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, Florida, November 2004.

“Centralized Curricula: Faculty Autonomy, Freedom, and Satisfaction,” delivered with Craig N. Bach to the Tenth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, Florida, November 2004.

“In Defense of a Centralized Curriculum,” delivered with Craig N. Bach to the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Fifteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, University of Toledo, August 2004.

“Philosophical Portfolios” delivered to the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Fifteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, University of Toledo, August 2004.

“Ethics Without Texts,” delivered to the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Fifteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, University of Toledo, August 2004.

“Two Advantages of On-line Interaction,” delivered to the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Fifteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, University of Toledo, August 2004.

“Designing and Facilitating Group Projects in Distance Education,” delivered to the Kaplan University Faculty Retreat, Chicago, Illinois, July 2004.

Comments on Benjamin Yost's "On the Necessity of the Death Penalty in Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy," delivered to the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Cleveland, Ohio, May 2003.

“Davidson's Externalism: Neither Social Nor Perceptual,” delivered to the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2001.

“Three Theses from Kant's Empirical Psychology,” delivered to the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March 2001.

"Send Food, Money, and Wisdom! Cooperative Education, Distance Learning, and Philosophy Pedagogy," delivered to the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2000.

“Using One Paragraph Reflection Papers in Writing Intensive Courses,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers Thirteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Alverno College, August 2000.

“Using RealAudio Multimedia Content in the Philosophy Classroom,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers Thirteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Alverno College, August 2000.

“Online Discussions that Really Make a Difference,” delivered to the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Thirteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Alverno College, August 2000.

Comments on Martin Schönfeld's “Kant's Conversion to Newtonianism,” delivered to the North American Kant Society meeting at the Pacific APA, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2000.

“Kant's Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem,” delivered to:

The Ninth International Kant Congress, Berlin, March 2000;

The Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, Massachusetts December 1999;

The Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society, St. Louis, Missouri November 1999.

Vis activa is not Vis motrix: Kant's critique of Wolffian Mechanics,” delivered to the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Washington DC, December 1998.

“Kant's Pre-Critical Account of Embodied Cognition,” delivered to the Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1998.

"Kant, the Body, and Knowledge," delivered to the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1998.

"Engendering Kant: Body, Soul, and Gender in Kant's Early Metaphysics," delivered to the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, South Bend, Indiana, April 1998.

"Perpetual Peace or Everlasting War? Hegel's Ethical Defense of Warfare" delivered to the Tenth Annual National Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Chico, California, September 1997.

“Knowing the Body as an External Object? The Strange case of Kant and Bodily Self-awareness,” delivered to the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Austin, Texas, March 1996.

“The Socratic Elenchus as a Search for Truth,” delivered to the Twentieth Annual Colloquium in Philosophy, Towson State University, November 1995.

“Kant's (Problematic) Account of Empirical Concepts,” delivered to the Eighth International Kant Congress, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1995.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ELLIS COLLEGE OF THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Professor (2007-present)
Business Ethics

KAPLAN UNIVERSITY
Professor (2005-2007)
;
Chair, Humanities Department (2004-2006); Associate Professor (2001-2004)
Aesthetics, Technology, and Democracy; Bioethics; Business Ethics; Critical Thinking; Data Analysis; Ethics; Humanities Seminar; Research Methods; Thesis and Research 

SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY
Instructor (2001-2006)
Business Ethics; Medical Ethics

ANTIOCH COLLEGE
Assistant Professor (1998-2001); Chair, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Area (2001) 
African Philosophy; Animal Minds; Contemporary Analytic and Continental Philosophy; Environmental Philosophy; Epistemology; Feminist Philosophy; History of Western Philosophy; Informal Logic and Critical Thinking; Philosophy of Psychology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Technology; Western Religions and their Philosophies

MCDANIEL COLLEGE
Instructor (1995-1998)
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; Epistemology and Metaphysics; Ethics, Minds, Bodies, and Persons; Philosophy in Film; Philosophy and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
Instructor (1995); 
Research Opportunities Mentor (1993); Teaching Assistant (1991-1995)
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; Kant, Knowledge and Its Limits; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophical Methods

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Kaplan University Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, 2006

Kaplan Higher Education Extra Mile Award, 2003

APA Eastern Division Graduate Student Travel Stipend, 1998

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, 1995

Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1987

Other honors include seven fellowships, prizes, or competitive research stipends; election to various faculty leadership positions at Antioch College and Kaplan University; successful applications to two competitive professional development pedagogy workshops.


 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

At  Ellis College:

Academic Senate Vice President; Primary Author of Accreditation Self-Study; Chair of Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee; Elected member of Academic Senate and Executive Committee; appointed member of Middle States Commission and Higher Learning Commission Self-Study Committee, Assessment Committee, Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee.

At Kaplan University:

Faculty Senate President; Leader of Mission Statement and Purposes Redrafting Team; Leader of Ethics Team within Alternative Instructional Materials Project; Communications Department Acting Chair; Assessment Committee  Chair; Retreat Committee Chair; Faculty Participant in U.S. Senate Online Education Fair; Department Chair Mentor; Faculty Mentor; HLC Accreditation Self-Study Contributor; HLC Request for Institutional Change Contributor; HLC Request for Institutional Change Site Visit Interviewee; CCNE Site Visit Interviewee; elected member of Faculty Senate, Institutional Review Board, Assessment Committee, Faculty Rank and Standards Committee; appointed member of Long-Range Planning Committee, Governance Committee, Retreat Committee, Characteristics of Graduate Education Task Force, Student Survey and Faculty Survey Task Force, Characteristics of Undergraduate Education Task Force; Governance Task Force.

At Antioch College:

Special Assistant to the Dean of Faculty for Institutional Assessment; Chair of College Assessment Committee; Co-Chair of College Accreditation and Assessment Committee; Chair of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Department; Chair of Philosophy Search Committee; President of College Chapter of American Association of University Professors; elected member of President's Administrative Council, Dean of Faculty's Academic Planning Council, Faculty Executive Committee; appointed member of College Budget Committee,  Ad Hoc Committee on General Education, Technology Task Force, Technology Resources Multiple Search Committee.

Other:

Peer Review Corps Member, AQIP and PEAQ Accreditation Programs, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association

Panelist, AskPhilosophers.org web project

Board of Directors, American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Editorial Council, Citizendium.Org

Program Co-Chair, American Association of Philosophy Teachers Seventeenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy 

Program Co-Chair, American Association of Philosophy Teachers Sixteenth International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy 

Peer review: SUNY Press, Wadsworth Publishing Company, SyntheseKantian Review, Teaching Philosophy, Computers and Philosophy (CAP) conference,  Nupedia: Open Content Encyclopedia web project.

Organizing: Summer 2008 American Association of Philosophy Teachers International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy; Summer 2006 American Association of Philosophy Teachers International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy; Summer 2005 Kaplan University Faculty Retreat; Fall 2000 meeting at Antioch College of the Midwest Society of Women in Philosophy; Spring 2000 Antioch College Faculty Research Symposium. 

Grant-funded service: Collaborative research (with Tom Haugsby, Antioch College professor of cooperative education) on preparing students for cooperative education. 

College Faculty Mentor for Darke County (OH) High School Career Mentorship Program.

Philosophy Editor, Citzendium.Org

Immanuel Kant, Teaching Philosophy topics editor of EpistemeLinks.Com web project

Course Materials editor of NOESIS: Philosophical Research Online web project

Moderator of PHILO-TEACH, an e-mail discussion of philosophy pedagogy

Associate Editor of HIPPIAS: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet

Author of Course Materials in Philosophy web project.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Philosophical Association              American Association of Philosophy Teachers
North American Kant Society                       Hegel Society of America
Concerned Philosophers for Peace               American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences          

                                                                       

 


REFERENCES [e-mail addresses and telephone numbers available on request]

  

Professor Ron Barnette, Department of Philosophy, Valdosta State University. Valdosta, GA, 31698


Dr. Quassim Cassam, Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PN, UK


Professor Robert Cavalier, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213


Professor Hannah Ginsborg, Department of Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720


Professor Ramesh Patel, Department of Philosophy, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH 45387


Professor David Stern, Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52245


Professor Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, 47374