David Baumeister
I’m an American philosopher based in Stuttgart, Germany.
I am author of the book Kant and the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race (2022) and a number of articles and book chapters on Kant, environmental and animal philosophy, the histories of race and colonialism, and other topics.
You can follow my academic work on my academia.edu page.
In 2025, I created (and then put to rest) Deadbeat Philosophy, a public-facing, new-media philosophy project involving a podcast, YouTube channel, and experimental writing. You can access the archive of that project here.
You can contact me at davidcbaumeister [@] 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
Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race
Northwestern University Press
Decolonizing Conservation
Special Issue, with Lauren Eichler Ethics, Policy & Environment
"Black Animality from Kant to Fanon"
Theory & Event
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
