Don Collins Reed, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Office: Hollenbeck Hall 308 (937) 327- 6336
E-mail: dreed@wittenberg.edu
B.A., Hendrix College; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Reed teaches ethics and history of philosophy. His scholarly research focused for two decades on Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987), a psychologist and philosopher of moral development, who in the mid-1970s created the first Just Community School near Harvard University. The University of Notre Dame Press published Reed’s Following Kohlberg: Liberalism and the Practice of Democratic Community (1997). As a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1996-97), Reed conducted biographical research on Kohlberg. His work in moral development took a new turn when he spent two years observing and volunteering in a public high school classroom (2003-04) and two preschool classrooms (2004-05) in Springfield. He then served four years (2006-09) as an elected member of the Board of Education of Springfield City Schools, serving during 2006 as Board President. Reed was guest editor of the 2008 Special Edition of the Journal of Moral Education, titled “Towards an integrated model of moral functioning.” His research now focuses on developing a multi-level model of ethical functioning based on current scientific research on morality, and he is writing a book tentatively titled “Moral Compromises, Ethical Functioning.” Reed is Associate Editor for Ethics and Philosophy of the Journal of Moral Education. He wrote a monthly “Lay Theologian” column for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (2005-2011), which can be found at this link. Reed came to Wittenberg in 1989.