Anne Margaret Baxley

Wilson Hall, Rm. 105 / 935-8621 

Anne Margaret Baxley’s research interests are primarily in Kant’s ethics and the history of ethics.  Baxley recently completed a book entitled Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. She has published papers on a range of topics in Kant’s ethics and virtue ethics in Kant-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.  Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the American Philosophical Society. She was selected as a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane, where she will spend 2009-2010 researching a new project on Kant’s account of happiness.  Baxley was also awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship by the ACLS in their 2009 competition.