David Baumeister

I’m an American philosopher based in Stuttgart, Germany.

You can read my current philosophical work at my SubStack, Deadbeat Philosophy.

In addition to projects in philosophical writing, I host the weekly Deadbeat Philosophy Podcast, a co-production with the Museum Hegel-Haus in Stuttgart. This is available on Apple podcasts and Spotify, among other places, and in video format on YouTube (along with my other video content).

I was an assistant professor of philosophy in the US for four years prior to moving to Germany. Now, I occupy a handful of "positions." I teach history of philosophy and environmental philosophy at the University of Stuttgart, where I am a visiting senior research fellow. I direct Kinderphilosophie programming at the Museum Hegel-Haus (which involves philosophy-themed acoustic guitar sing-alongs for kids plus an ethical dilemma puppet show) and coordinate the long-running Philosophiekreis at the Stuttgart Volkshochschule.

I am author of the book Kant and the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race, as well as a number of articles and book chapters on Kant, on environmental and animal philosophy, on the histories of race and colonialism, and on other topics. You can follow my past (and, to the extent it exists, future) academic work on my academia.edu page.

You can follow my current philosophy projects (including three books-in-progress: On the Kanthropocene, Animality and Finitude, and A Bipolar Manifesto) over at the Deadbeat Philosophy homepage mentioned above.

You can contact me at deadbeatphilosophy [@] gmail.com.