Anne Margaret Baxley

Short Biography

Anne Margaret Baxley's research is in Kant's ethics, the history of ethics, and ethical theory. Her papers on Kant's ethics and aesthetics have appeared in Kant-Studien, The Review of Metaphysics, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She is completing a book manuscript, entitled Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy and is also working on a project in systematic ethics concerning the relation between virtue and happiness, or moral and non-moral value. She has held fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the American Association of University Women. Before coming to Washington University in St. Louis, where she currently teaches, Baxley taught at Virginia Tech. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.