ANDREW N. CARPENTER
1290 LAUREL LN
WESTMINSTER, MD 21158
andy @ andrewcarpenter . net
EDUCATION
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,
“A Shared Vision of Shared Governance,” delivered
with David Harpool and John LaNear to the Kaplan University Faculty Retreat,
“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,
“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,
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,
“Davidson's
Externalism: Neither Social Nor Perceptual,” delivered to the
Central Division of the American Philosophical Association,
“Three
Theses from Kant's Empirical Psychology,” delivered to the
Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association,
"Send
Food, Money, and Wisdom! Cooperative Education, Distance Learning, and
Philosophy Pedagogy," delivered to the Fifteenth Annual Conference on
Computing and Philosophy,
“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,
The
Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association,
The
Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society,
“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,
“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,
“The Socratic Elenchus as a Search
for Truth,” delivered to the Twentieth Annual Colloquium in
Philosophy,
“Kant's (Problematic) Account of
Empirical Concepts,” delivered to the Eighth International
Kant Congress,
Professor (2005-2007)
Instructor (2001-2006)
Business
Ethics; Medical Ethics
Assistant Professor
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
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
Instructor (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,
Phi Beta Kappa,
Other
honors include seven fellowships, prizes, or competitive research
stipends; election to various faculty leadership positions at
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
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, Synthese, Kantian 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
Grant-funded
service: Collaborative research (with Tom Haugsby,
College Faculty
Mentor for
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
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
REFERENCES
Professor Ron Barnette, Department of
Philosophy,
Professor Peter Suber, Department of
Philosophy,