DAVID BAUMEISTER

davidcbaumeister@gmail.com
School of Humanities · Seton Hill University
1 Seton Hill Dr., Greensburg, PA 15601
Updated May 2022

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Oregon (2016)
M.A., Philosophy, The New School for Social Research (2009)
B.A., Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver (2006, Summa Cum Laude)

EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Seton Hill University (2018–2022)
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver (2010–2018)

PUBLICATIONS
Book
Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race. Northwestern University Press (2022).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Settler Colonialism and the US Conservation Movement: Contesting Histories, Indigenizing Futures.”
Ethics, Policy & Environment 24.3 (2021): 209–234. Co-authored with Lauren Eichler.
“Black Animality from Kant to Fanon.” Theory & Event 24.4 (2021): 951–976.
“Predators and Pests: Settler Colonialism and the Animalization of Native Americans.” Environmental
Ethics 42.4 (2020): 295–311. Co-authored with Lauren Eichler.
“Kant, Chakrabarty, and the Crises of the Anthropocene.” Environmental Ethics 41.1 (2019): 53–67.
“The Human/Animal Logic of Sovereignty: Derrida on Robinson Crusoe.” Environmental Philosophy 16.1
(2019): 161–180.
“Hunting for Justice: An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.”
Environment and Society 9 (2018): 75–90. Co-authored with Lauren Eichler. Featured on The
Unsettled Hunter podcast, 2/6/19. Reprinted in Indigenous Resurgence: Decolonization and
Movements for Environmental Justice. Edited by Jaskiran Dhillon, 77–92. Berghahn Books (2022).
“Social Conceptions of Moral Agency in Hegel and Sellars.” International Journal of Philosophical
Studies 25.2 (2017): 249–265.
“Derrida on Carnophallogocentrism and the Primal Parricide.” Derrida Today 10.1 (2017): 51–66.
“Rationality, Animality, and Human Nature: Reconsidering Kant’s View of the Human/Animal Relation.”
Konturen 7 (2014): 62–76.
“From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rorty’s Approach to Race and Racism.” Philosophy in
the Contemporary World 21.2 (2014): 52–60.
Guest-Edited Journal Issues
“Decolonizing Conservation.” Ethics, Policy & Environment 24.2 (2021). Co-edited with Lauren Eichler.
“Reading Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign.” Environmental Philosophy 16.1 (2019).
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
“Animality in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature.” In Kant and Animals. Edited by Lucy Allais and John J.
Callanan, 105–122. Oxford University Press (2020).
“Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter.” In
Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence, ed. Jonathan Beever, 29–42. Lexington
(2020).
“Physical Education in Kant’s Lectures on Pedagogy.” In Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII.
Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, 2523–2530. Edited by Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing, and
David Wagner. Walter de Gruyter (2018).
Other Publications
“Introduction to Special Issue: Reading Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign.” Environmental Philosophy
16.1 (2019): 1–12.
“The Cold Light of Class.” Times Higher Education. January 24th (2019).
“Philosophy Courses Must Not Shy Away From Suicide.” Times Higher Education. October 18th (2018).
Review of Brian Massumi, What Animals Teach Us About Politics (Duke University Press, 2014)
Contemporary Political Theory 14.4 (2015): 25–27.
“Ecological Political Theory and Ontological Connection.” Reply to Rebecca Aili Ploof’s “Realizing
Humanity through Animality: An Interpretation of Nature and Artifice in Leviathan.” American
Dialectic 4.2 (2014): 147–149.

AWARDS & HONORS

2019 Ila and John Mellow Prize, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
For “excellence in advancing the American philosophical tradition toward the resolution
of current personal, social, and political problems”
2016 Best Graduate Student Paper, North American Kant Society, Southern Study Group
2015–2016 Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellowship, University of Oregon
2014–2015 Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oregon
2014–2015 Visiting Graduate Student in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
2014 Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics Bursary Award, University of Oxford
For travel to 2014 Uehiro Lectures (with Christine Korsgaard)
2014 Best Graduate Student Paper, philoSOPHIA, Pennsylvania State University
2013 Master Class in Critical Theory, Universität Luzern (with Nancy Fraser)
2013 Best Graduate Student Paper, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
2011 Paideia Prize for Excellent Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon

PRESENTATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
“Animality and Savagery in Kant’s Theory of Race,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Remote Conference, September 25th, 2021
“Beauvoir’s Hunting Hypothesis,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Remote
Conference, October 10th, 2020
“Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Beauvoirian Account,” philoSOPHIA, Nashville, TN,
May 15th, 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Hunting as a Tool of Conservation and Genocide,” International Association for Environmental
Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA, November 4th, 2019 (Presented with Lauren Eichler)
“Kant, Moscati, and the Status of Physiological Anthropology,” Society for Phenomenology and

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 Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1st, 2019
“Rethinking Conservation for Inclusivity: An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of
Wildlife Conservation,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Columbus, OH,
March 15th, 2019 (Presented with Lauren Eichler and winner of the Ila and John Mellow Prize)
“Violence, Animality, and the Moral Law: Confronting a Kantian Legacy,” Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, State College, PA, October 19th, 2018
“Animalizing Edith Stein’s Ethics of Empathy,” Extensions of Stein: Empathy and Advocacy in Philosophy
of Communication, Greensburg, PA, October 5th, 2018
“A Historical Look at Human-Animal Transformation,” Transform-able Identity/ies, Corvallis, OR, March
11th, 2017
“Self-Preservation, Survival, and Climate Change: a Kantian View,” International Association for
Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT, October 24th, 2016
“Kant on Animality, Race, and Sexual Difference,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
Salt Lake City, UT, October 21st, 2016
“Violence, Animality, and the Moral Law: Confronting a Kantian Legacy with Critical Theory,” German
Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 1st, 2016
“The Constancy of Human Animality in Kant’s Moscati Review,” North American Kant Society, Biannual
Meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 28th, 2016
“Kant on Animality, Race, and Sexual Difference,” North American Kant Society, Southern Study Group,
Athens, GA, February 20th, 2016 (Best Graduate Student Paper Award)
“Physical Education in Kant’s Lectures on Pedagogy,” Natur und Freiheit: XII. Internationaler Kant
Kongress, Vienna, Austria, September 24th, 2015
“The Role of Animality in Kant’s Accounts of Human Racial and Sexual Difference,” philoSOPHIA: A
Feminist Society, Atlanta, GA, May 15th, 2015
“Philosophy of History at the Birth of the Anthropocene,” International Association for Environmental
Philosophy (Eastern APA), Philadelphia, PA, December 30th, 2014
“The Androcentric Dimension of the Anthropocene,” International Association for Environmental
Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 27th, 2014
“Animality and Normativity in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature,” Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 24th, 2014
“Irigaray and Beauvoir on the Animalization of Woman,” philoSOPHIA, State College, PA, May 3rd, 2014
(Best Graduate Student Paper Award)
“The Animal Beginning of Human History: Derrida’s Final Engagement with Kant,” Comparative and
Continental Philosophy Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, March 21st, 2014
“From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rorty’s Approach to Race and Racism,” Society for
the Advancement of American Phil., Denver, CO, March 7th, 2014
“Schiller’s Challenge to the Superiority of Humans over Non-Human Animals,” International Association
for Environmental Philosophy, Eugene, OR, October 27th, 2013
“Animality and Normativity in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature,” Crisis, Critique, Capitalism, Universität
Luzern, Switzerland, October 15th, 2013
“From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rorty’s Approach to Race and Racism,” Society for
Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, CO, July 22nd, 2013 (Best Graduate Student
Paper Award)
“Aristotle’s Politics of the Hunt,” Ancient Philosophy Society, South Bend, IN, April 6th, 2013
“Sacrificing the Animal, Ingesting the Father,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy,
Rochester, NY, November 4th, 2012
Invited
“Human Animality in Kant: Environmental Insights for Today,” Kant and the Environmental Crisis, North
American Kant Society Virtual Lecture Series, March 16th, 2022
“Animality and Reason in Kant’s Theory of Race,” Agency, Responsibility & Rational Unity, University of
Pittsburgh, February 1st, 2020

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“From Environmental Ethics to Environmental Philosophy,” New Challenges in Environmental
Philosophy—Contesting Boundaries, University of Oregon, January 16th, 2020
“Hunting for Justice,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Pittsburgh, PA, October 31st, 2019
(Presented with Lauren Eichler)
“Human Animality in the History of Philosophy,” Critical Animal Studies Symposium, Humboldt State
University, April 29th, 2016
“Kant’s Animal–Rational Axis,” Tracking the Animal, Trinity College, April 18th, 2015
“The Dialectic of Rationality and Animality in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature,” Defining the Human and
the Animal, Eugene, OR, May 2nd, 2013
Public Presentations/Consultations
“An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation,” Endangered Species
Coalition, National Wolf Call, May 19th, 2020 (Invited Consultation, with Lauren Eichler)
“A History of Our Fear of Animals,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, October 28th, 2017
“A History of Animal Intelligence,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, May 6th, 2017
“A History of Human-Animal Hybrids,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, October 29th, 2016

TEACHING
Seton Hill University
Asian Perspectives, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022
Biomedical Ethics, Fall 2020–Spring 2022
Black Lives Matter, Spring 2021
Environmental Ethics, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Existentialism, Fall 2019
Introduction to Ethics, Fall 2018–Summer 2022
Logic and Argument, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
Mind and Body, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
Philosophy of Art, Spring 2019
Philosophy of Law, Fall 2018
Race, Gender, Disability, Spring 2020
University of Colorado, Denver
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning, Fall 2010–Summer 2018
Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 2010
Pacific University
Philosophy of Law, Spring 2018
University of Oregon
Animals and Philosophy, Winter 2016
Critical Reasoning, Summer 2013, Fall 2016
Environmental Philosophy, Summer 2014, Fall 2015
Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange, Spring 2014
Existentialism, Fall 2012
Human Nature, Spring 2013
Logic, Inquiry, and Argumentation, Spring 2016
Philosophy and Popular Culture, Summer 2016

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INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Seton Hill University
Chair, Liberal Arts Curriculum Program Review Committee, 2021–Present
Chair, Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee, 2020–Present
Co-Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program, 2018–Present
Coordinator, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Theology Program, 2019–2020
Middle States Accreditation Committee, 2019–2020
University of Oregon
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Human/Animal Research Interest Group, 2012–2018
President, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, AFT 3544, 2013–2014
VP for Organizing, Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, AFT 3544, 2012–2013
Graduate Studies Committee, Philosophy, 2012–2013

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for Environmental Philosophy
Referee for Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy
Referee for Ethics, Policy & Environment
Referee for Journal for the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition
Referee for MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Referee for The Journal of Ethics
Editorial Assistant for Environmental Philosophy, 2013–2014

LANGUAGES
German: fluent in reading, writing, and speaking
French: basic reading

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association
Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
North American Kant Society
philoSOPHIA: A Society for Continental Feminism
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

REFERENCES
Ted Toadvine
Director of the Rock Ethics Institute Rocío Zambrana
Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Professor of Philosophy
Penn State University Emory University
tat30@psu.edu (814) 865-7691 rocio.zambrana@emory.edu (404) 712-9425

Nicolae Morar Robert Metcalf

Associate Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Philosophy
Environmental Studies University of Colorado, Denver
University of Oregon robert.metcalf@ucdenver.edu (303) 556-6187
nmorar@uoregon.edu (765) 413-3218

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