Derek Baker
Associate Professor of Philosophy • Professor
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Derek Baker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, where he teaches in the B.Sc. Management, Philosophy & Economics program. Before joining Frankfurt School, he was a Lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, he taught at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, first as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor.
His primary research area is metaethics, with a focus on questions concerning the objectivity and authority of the normative. His research interests also include the ethics of AI and the epistemic and political questions arising from the internet’s transformation of mass media. His work has appeared in leading academic publications, including Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophical Quarterly.
Derek Baker earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
His primary research area is metaethics, with a focus on questions concerning the objectivity and authority of the normative. His research interests also include the ethics of AI and the epistemic and political questions arising from the internet’s transformation of mass media. His work has appeared in leading academic publications, including Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophical Quarterly.
Derek Baker earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University and completed his undergraduate studies at the 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., 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.
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.
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OFFICE HOURS
During the lecture period
By appointment available upon request via email.
Room
A5.01