David Baumeister

I’m an American philosopher stranded in Germany.

You can follow my current philosophical work over at my SubStack, Deadbeat Philosophy. Please subscribe and support this experiment in para-academic philosophizing!

I host the weekly Deadbeat Philosophy Podcast, which is available in audio form on Apple podcasts and Spotify, among other places, and in full video format on YouTube (along with my other weird video-philosophy content).

I was a tenure-track philosophy professor in the US for four years prior to moving to Germany. Now, 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 in Stuttgart (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 numerous articles and book chapters on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, on environmental and animal philosophy, on the histories of race and colonialism, and on a number of other topics. You can follow my past (and, to the extent it exists, future) published academic work on my academia.edu page.

You can follow my current philosophical writing 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.