ReasonIO

Department Member, Critical Thinking and Ethics

About

Recently, I left a position at FSU where I was on track for early tenure and promotion -- in order to start my own consulting company, ReasonIO

ReasonIO brings philosophy into practice in three main ways:
1. improving, and implementing assessment of teaching and learning
2. infusing critical thinking and ethics into curricula and workplaces
3. coaching individuals and organizations using resources from classical and contemporary philosophy.

The last three years, while teaching Philosophy and Critical Thinking courses at Fayetteville State University, I:
1. cofounded the Ethics in Business Education Project
2. coordinated transition to CLA Performance Tasks for institutional assessment
3. provided workshops and resources on Business Ethics, Critical Thinking, and the CLA, and
4. wrote substantial portions of FSU's Quality Enhancement Plan.

Prior to my time contributing to FSU, I taught Philosophy and Religious Studies for 6 years in Ball State University's program at Indiana State Prison.

Over the course of my career, I have published several articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and translations. Many of these focus on figures from the history of philosophy: Aristotle, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, G.W.F. Hegel.  Some address figures in 20th century Continental Philosophy:  Adorno, Lacan, Derrida.  Many others discuss 20th century Catholic thinkers: Maurice Blondel, Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, Gabriel Marcel, and Dietrich Von Hildebrand.

My first book, Reason Fulfilled By Revelation: the 1930s Christian Philosophy Debates in France, was recently published by CUA Press.  I am currently at work on three book projects.  The first is a systematic reconstruction of Anselm's moral theory. The second develops an Aristotelian theory of Anger.  The third is a how-to guide for developing quality CLA Performance Tasks, implementing them in educational assessment, and developing CLA-based pedagogy for the classroom.

I have studied, implemented, and presented on a number of pedagogical strategies and situations, including: writing across the curriculum, inquiry guided learning, service learning, information literacy, prison teaching for moral development, and lecture capture.  You can see some examples of the latter at http://tinyurl.com/cttalks and http://tinyurl.com/drsadlerct

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