David Baumeister

I am a philosopher based in Stuttgart, Germany.
You can access much of my work on academia.edu.
I can be reached at davidcbaumeister[at]gmail.com.

Interdisciplinary Environmental Theory

  • Anthropocene Studies

  • Conservation Ethics

  • Sustainability Studies

  • Indigenous Environmental Theory

  • Critical Animal Studies

Continental Philosophy

  • Deconstruction

  • Critical Theory

  • Phenomenology

  • Continental Feminism

History of Philosophy

  • Kant (esp. ethics, anthropology, and philosophy of nature)

  • Hegel (esp. anthropology and practical philosophy)

  • Blumenbach and Early Anthropology

  • Rousseau and Romanticism

  • Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes

Social and Political Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Race

  • Decolonial Thought

  • Feminist Theory

  • Disability Studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Decolonizing Conservation

Special Issue, with Lauren Eichler Ethics, Policy & Environment

CURRENT AND PAST AFFILIATIONS

Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy

University of Colorado, University of Oregon, McDaniel College, Pacific University

January 2010 - July 2018

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Seton Hill University

August 2018 - December 2022

Senior Research Fellow

Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Philosophie

Spring 2023 - Present

EDUCATION

University of Oregon

PhD in Philosophy, 2016

University of Colorado, Denver

BA in Philosophy, 2006

The New School for Social Research

MA in Philosophy, 2009

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