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Chris Reid - Elisabetta Toreno

I was born in Washington, D.C., but I spent most of my adolescent and teenage years in Rochester, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. I enlisted in the Navy after high school and was stationed in the tiny emirate of Bahrain from 1994 until 1995, serving on the staff of the commander of all U.S. Naval forces in the area. In the summer of 1995 I entered the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, R.I., and spent a year of intense instruction in mathematics and science before receiving an appointment to Annapolis. I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in the summer of 2000 with a B.S. Political Science.

My first and only duty station as a Commissioned Officer was in Tokyo/Yokosuka, Japan. I served in various leadership and management—mostly engineering—assignments during my five and a half years there. Curiosity about the various aspects of human behavior and mental life led me to the study of Human Relations. I earned my Master of Human Relations (M.H.R.) at the University of Oklahoma, Yokosuka Campus, where I concentrated in Organizational Psychology. During my course of study I became familiar with historical and contemporary ideas in management and industrial/organizational psychology. The reading from this program stirred my interest in the history of ideas; and further study of the intellectual foundations of Human Relations led me to philosophy.

After leaving the Navy and earning my M.H.R., I decided to pursue a postgraduate degree in Philosophy. Not quite quenched of my thirst for overseas adventure, I applied to the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, and was accepted for the Master of Letters (MLitt. or magister litterarum) degree in Philosophy. At Glasgow University I studied logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy—particularly the works of Plato, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel—and completed a thesis on the social philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel in 2007.

I returned to the U.S. in January 2008 and took a job as a Human Capital Management consultant in a global consulting firm. I left this firm in 2009. I currently teach I/O psychology online and write freelance. My writing interests include politics, social and cultural criticism, and philosophy.