Derek Baker

Associate Professor of Philosophy • Professor

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Derek Baker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, where he teaches in the Management, Economics and Philosophy program. Prior to coming to Frankfurt he taught briefly as a Lecturer at University of Colorado, Boulder; prior to that he taught at Lingnan University Hong Kong, first as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor. His primary area of research is metaethics, focusing on questions about the objectivity and authority of the normative. He has additional research interests in the ethics of AI and in the epistemic and political questions raised by the way the internet has transformed mass media. His work has appeared in leading publications, such as Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophical Quarterly.

Derek Baker completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton University and completed his undergraduate work at University of California, Berkeley.

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PUBLICATIONS

Baker, D., Woods, J., 2023. Handling rejection, Philosophical Studies Vol. 180, pp. 159-190.

Baker, D., 2022. Deflating the Many Attitudes Problem, Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 72(1), pp. 1-18.

Baker, D., 2021. Quasirealism as semantic dispensability, Philosophical Studies Vol. 178, pp. 2313-2333.

Baker, D., 2024, Comments on Victor Tadros's "Treatment and Accountability", in: Hon-Lam Li (ed): Lanson Lectures in Bioethics (2016-2022): Assisted Suicide, Responsibility, and Pandemic Ethics (forthcoming).

Baker, D., 2021, If You're Quasi-Explaining, You're Quasi-Losing, in: Russ Shafer-Landau (ed): Oxford Studies in Metaethics 16, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 54-79.