User:Andrew Carpenter

Andy is a professional philosopher who teaches research methods, statistics, applied ethics, and supervises master's theses at Kaplan University, an innovative proprietary online University that serves adult learners. His academic specialty is the history of early modern philosophy, and especially Immanuel Kant's theoretical philosophy.

Andy's other academic interests include academic governance (he serves as faculty senate president of his institution), assessment of the quality of higher education (he serves as a peer reviewer for the higher learning commission of the North Central Association, one of the U.S. accreditation agencies), and assessment of higher learning (he has led academic assessment committees at his current and his prior institution, Antioch College).

Andy was educated at Amherst College (B.A., summa cum laude), the University of Oxford (B.Phil.), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.).

In addition to joining the Citizendium pilot project, Andy's recent academic work includes peer reviewing manuscript submissions on Immanuel Kant, serving as program co-chair of a major international conference on teaching philosophy, participating on panels about online learning at two national conferences organized by the American Philosophical Association, serving on the board of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, and publishing an article on using philosophy to enhance research, pedagogy, and professional pratice within criminology.

Andy serves as an editor of Citzendium. He previously worked with Larry Sanger as an editor of Nupedia. His academic vitae is published on the web here.