Annette Baier

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Baier, Annette (11 October 1929 - )

Baier, the New Zealand-born wife of Kurt Erich Baier, is a moral philosopher and a David Hume scholar.

She received her bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from the University of Otago, and, in 1954, her bachelor of philosophy degree from Oxford, writing a thesis on precision in poetry under J. L. Austin. After teaching in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, Baier moved to the United States, teaching first at Carnegie Mellon and then at the University of Pittsburgh from 1973 until her retirement as Distinguished Service Professor in 1997.

Currently, Baier is a staff associate in the philosophy department of the University of Otago in New Zealand.

(See the Baier entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.)