John Eigenauer
Dr. John Eigenauer is Professor of Philosophy at Taft College. He holds a Master’s Degree in English from California State University, Dominquez Hills, and a Master’s Degree in Humanities, and Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies from Syracuse University, where he was the recipient of the prestigious Syracuse University Fellowship.
Dr. Eigenauer has taught philosophy, English, mathematics, computer science, physics, and Spanish. He has delivered workshops nationally and internationally on the pedagogy of critical thinking and published articles on critical thinking and rationality. His article, “The Problem With the Problem of Human Rationality,” published in the International Journal of Educational Reform, was highlighted in Psychology Today. Other publications of Dr. Eigenauer’s have appeared in The Historian, The Harvard Theological Review, History of Intellectual Culture, Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines, The Rational Alternative, American Atheist Magazine, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Innovation Abstracts, and The NISOD Papers.
He served as guest editor for a Special Edition on Enlightenment and Education for
Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, and was the community college representative for the International Committee for
the Study of Neuromyths in Higher Education. He has spoken internationally on the
complexities of rationality, including at the LogicalLA conference. His book, Paris and the Birth of Public Knowledge is available online.
Before teaching at Taft College, Dr. Eigenauer was a Senior Technology Specialist
at Microsoft, a systems engineer at NASA, and Director of Technology for a school
system in Ohio.