Andy Carpenter

Andrew N. Carpenter, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, earned degrees in philosophy from Amherst College (BA, summa cum laude), the University of Oxford (B.Phil), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.); his academic specialty is the history of early modern philosophy. Dr. Carpenter has served in numerous administrative and faculty leadership roles at proprietary and not-for-profit institutions of higher learning and has significant expertise in organizational development, academic governance, academic policy creation, continuous quality improvement, strategic planning, faculty development, and the assessment of institutions of higher learning, academic programs, and student learning. Dr. Carpenter is an expert in online learning, has extensive curriculum development experience, and is a member of the peer review corps of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association, the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council, and the Quality Matters Project (certified Master Reviewer).

Dr. Carpenter serves on the board of directors of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers and the advisory board of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association; he is also active in the Professional and Organizational Development Network and serves on several academic journal editorial boards. Dr. Carpenter has an extensive publishing record in philosophy and in the scholarship of teaching and learning, including recent publications on learning assessment, developing social capital within academic communities, and administrative and academic structures in for-profit and not-for-profit institutions of higher learning. Carpenter has received eight teaching awards from six institutions of higher learning and previously served as a member of the faculty executive committee at Antioch College, as the president of the faculty senates of Kaplan University and Ellis University, and as the Chief Academic Officer of Ellis University and John Hancock University.

Courses Taught

RSCH 8350 - Advanced Qualitative Reasoning and Analysis

RSCH 8300 - Qualitative Reasoning and Analysis

RSCH 8210 - Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

HUMN 9001 - Dissertation

Education

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

B.Phil., University of Oxford

BA, Amherst College

Awards / Honors

Bernard L. Turner Award, Walden University, 2023

Engagement Challenge Award, Strayer University, 2014

Extra Mile Award, Kaplan University, 2003

Independence Award, Ellis University, 2008

Gail Kennedy Memorial Prize in Philosophy, Amherst College, 1988

George A. Plimpton Fellowship, Amherst College, 1988

Graduate Faculty Award, Ellis University, 2009

Independence Award, Ellis University, 2008

Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Kaplan University, 2006

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California Berkeley, 1995

Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1987

Stephen Shank Recognition for Teaching Excellence, Capella University, 2012

Summa cum laude Graduation Honors, Amherst College, 1988

Top-Performing Adjunct Faculty Member, Strayer University, 2015

Publications

Carpenter, A. N., Bach, C. (2011). Administrative and Academic Structures: For-Profit and Not-for-Profit.

Carpenter, A. N., Cullen, F. T., Wilcox, P. A. (2010). Beccaria, Cesare: Classical School.

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Davidson's Externalism and the Unintelligibility of Massive Error. Disputatio

Carpenter, A. N. (2003). Davidson’s Transcendental Argumentation: Externalism, Interpretation, and the Veridicality of Belief.

Carpenter, A. N. (1995). Kant’s (Problematic) Account of Empirical Concepts.

Carpenter, A. N. (2001). Kant’s Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem.

Carpenter, A. N. (1999). Kant’s Philosophy of Mind.

Carpenter, A. N., Bach, C. (2010). Learning Assessment: Hyperbolic Doubts Versus Deflated Critiques. Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis

Carpenter, A. N. (2007). Online Discussions and the ‘Place’ of Learning. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy

Carpenter, A. N. (1999). Review of Anthony Kenny’s Brief History of Western Philosophy. Disputatio

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Review of Martin Schönfeld's The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Pre-Critical Project. Kantian Review

Carpenter, A. N. (2003). Review of Steve Fuller’s Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Social Epistemology

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Review of Susan Meld Shell’s The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community. Kantian Review

Carpenter, A. N., Morgan, S., Price, C., Coughlin, L. (2010). Social Capital and the Campus Community. To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development

Carpenter, A. N. (2010). The Aristotelian Heart of Marx’s Condemnation of Capitalism. Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia

Carpenter, A. N., Bach, C. (2006). The Benefits of Philosophical Analysis for Criminological Research, Pedagogy, and Practice. Professional Issues in Criminal Justice

Carpenter, A. N. (2023). The Urban Aesthetics of Absence. Istanbul Bilgi University Cultural Policy and Management Research Center

Carpenter, A. N. (1992). Truth and Reference: Some Doubts About Formal Semantics. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Using RealAudio Multimedia Content in the Philosophy Classroom. The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Using the Internet in the Philosophy Classroom. The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

Carpenter, A. N. (2002). Western Philosophy.

Presentations

Carpenter, A. N. (2008). A Grotesque, Unintentional Parody of the Social Sciences and ‘Accountability’? The Death of the Humanities at the Hands of the Social Sciences? A Philosophical Assessment of the Strongest Arguments Against Academic Assessment. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). A Multi-Faceted Approach to Online Faculty Training and Development. Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

Carpenter, A. N. (2006). A Shared Vision of Shared Governance. Kaplan University

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). Alternative Instructional Materials: A Case Study. Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). Centralized Curricula: Faculty Autonomy, Freedom, and Satisfaction. Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

Carpenter, A. N. (2003). Comments on Benjamin Yost’s “On the Necessity of the Death Penalty in Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy". American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Comments on Martin Schönfeld’s “Kant’s Conversion to Newtonianism” . North American Kant Society

Carpenter, A. N. (2007). Criminal Justice Education in Cyberspace: Maintaining Academic Integrity in an On-Line Environment. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Carpenter, A. N. (2001). Davidson’s Externalism: Neither Social nor Perceptual. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). Designing and Facilitating Group Projects in Distance Education. Kaplan University

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Engendering Kant: Body, Soul, and Gender in Kant's Early Metaphysics. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). Ethics Without Texts. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2005). Faculty Life Within a Highly Centralized Curriculum: A New Conception of Faculty Freedom and Autonomy. Kaplan University

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). In Defense of a Centralized Curriculum. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2016). Intellectual Vices and Philosophy Teaching: Presidential Address to the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Twenty-First Biennial International Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Kant, the Body, and Knowledge. World Congress of Philosophy

Carpenter, A. N. (1995). Kant’s (Problematic) Account of Empirical Concepts. International Kant Congress

Carpenter, A. N. (1999). Kant’s Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (1999). Kant’s Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem. North American Kant Society

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Kant’s Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem. International Kant Congress

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Kant’s Pre-Critical Account of Embodied Cognition. Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Carpenter, A. N. (1996). Knowing the Body as an External Object? The Strange case of Kant and Bodily Self-awareness. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,

Carpenter, A. N. (2012). Looking In the Mirror – Helping Students to Evaluate Their Own Deep-Seated Ethical Beliefs. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2018). Mentoring Emotionality. Grand Canyon University

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Online Discussions that Really Make a Difference. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (1997). Perpetual Peace or Everlasting War? Hegel's Ethical Defense of Warfare. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). Philosophical Portfolios. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2009). Philosophy as General Education: Aligning Learning Objectives with the Core Curriculum. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2006). Relating Academic Freedom to the Application of Tenure. Midwest Sociological Society

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Send Food, Money, and Wisdom! Cooperative Education, Distance Learning, and Philosophy Pedagogy. Conference on Computing and Philosophy

Carpenter, A. N. (2008). Should Philosophy Be Taught Online?. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2010). Social Capital and Your Campus Community: Gateways to New Analysis. Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Carpenter, A. N. (2005). Structuring Communication to Build On-line Communities. Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

Carpenter, A. N. (2006). Supporting the Least Advantaged: Kaplan University’s Progressive Educational Mission. Kaplan University

Carpenter, A. N. (2008). Teaching Philosophy to Non-Majors or: How I Came to Stop Worrying and Love ‘Service Courses’. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2007). Teaching Without Texts. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2008). The Benefits of Philosophical Analysis for Criminological Research, Pedagogy, and Practice. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Carpenter, A. N. (2009). The Ethics of Globalized Criminal Justice from a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Carpenter, A. N. (2021). The Fundamental Principle of Online Pedagogy and Other Outrageous Notions from Thirty Years Teaching Philosophy Online. Florida Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2006). The Place of Teaching in Your Life as a New Faculty Member in Philosophy. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2015). The Shifting Customer: A Theoretical Model for Online Curriculum Development. International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies

Carpenter, A. N. (1995). The Socratic Elenchus as a Search for Truth. Towson State University

Carpenter, A. N. (2012). The Value of Graduate Student Teacher Training for the Discipline of Philosophy. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2001). Three Theses from Kant’s Empirical Psychology. American Philosophical Association

Carpenter, A. N. (2004). Two Advantages of On-line Interaction. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Using One Paragraph Reflection Papers in Writing Intensive Courses. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (2000). Using RealAudio Multimedia Content in the Philosophy Classroom. American Association of Philosophy Teachers

Carpenter, A. N. (1998). Vis activa is not Vis motrix: Kant’s critique of Wolffian Mechanics. American Philosophical Association