Annette Claire Baier (

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Stoop; 11 October 1929 – 2 November 2012) was a New Zealand philosopher and

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scholar, focused in particular on Hume's

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. She was well known also for her contributions to

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and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague,

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Biography

Baier earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the

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in her native

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. In 1952 she went to

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, where she earned her PhD and met fellow philosophers

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and

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. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the

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, having moved there from

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. She retired to Dunedin. She was former President of the Eastern Division of the

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, an office reserved for the elite of her profession. Baier received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Otago in 1999. Her husband was the philosopher

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Ethics

Baier's approach to ethics is that women and men make their decisions about right and wrong based on different value systems: men take their moral decisions according to an idea of

justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

, while women are motivated by a sense of

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or caring. The history of philosophy having been overwhelmingly compiled by men, she suggests, leads to a body of thought which apparently ignores the role of nurture and trust in human philosophy.Annette Baier (1929 -)
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Bibliography

Books

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Chapters in books

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References

External links

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by Annette Baier *
Obituary: Annette C. Baier
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Annette Baier, 1929-2012
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