Annette Baier

Annette Baier

Western Philosophy Contemporary philosophy
Annette Baier
Full name	Annette Baier
Birth	1929 New Zealand
School/tradition	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Ethics, Feminist philosophy, Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	Giving trust a significant role in ethics
Influenced by David Hume, Wilfrid Sellars

Annette Baier (née Stoop) (born 1929) is a well-known moral philosopher and Hume scholar, focusing in particular on Hume's moral psychology. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh, having moved there from Carnegie Mellon University. She retired to her native Dunedin, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Otago. She is also well known for her contributions to feminist philosophy and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars. Her husband is the philosopher Kurt Baier.

She is a former President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, an office reserved for the elite of her profession. Baier received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Otago in 1999. In October 2007, Baier was ranked 72nd in a list of "Top 100 living geniuses" compiled by The Daily Telegraph ^[1].

Philosophy

Baier's approach to ethics is that women and men make their decisions about right and wrong based on different value systems: men take their moral decisions according to an idea of justice, while women are motivated by a sense of trust or caring. The history of philosophy having been overwhelmingly compiled by men, she suggests, leads to a body of thought which apparently ignores the role of nurture and trust in human philosophy. ^[2]

Bibliography

• Postures of the Mind: Essays on Mind and Morals (1985)
• A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise (1991)
• Moral Prejudices (1995), including especially "What Do Women Want in an Ethical Theory?" and "The Need For More Than Justice".
• The Commons of the Mind (Paul Carus lectures) (1997)

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