Michael Baur

Michael Baur (born 1963) is a professor of philosophy and an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University.

Michael Baur's research focuses on philosophers from the German idealist tradition, including Kant, Hegel, and Fichte. He also has published on thinkers in ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Aristotle and Aquinas, and on topics in twentieth century continental philosophy, American pragmatism, and the philosophy of law. He presently serves as the Secretary of the Hegel Society of America, and was series editor of the Cambridge Hegel Translations published by Cambridge University Press. He also is a past President of the Metaphysical Society of America.

Life and work Michael Baur was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He went to Loyola High School in Los Angeles, graduating in 1981. In 1985, he obtained his B.A. degree (double-majoring in philosophy and theology) from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. While an undergraduate, he spent his junior year (1983-1984) abroad at Durham University, England, where he studied under E.J. Lowe, David M. Knight, and Sheridan Gilley. He earned his M.A. in Philosophy (1986) and his Ph.D. in philosophy (1991) from the University of Toronto, where he studied under Rebecca Comay, Graeme Nicholson, Kenneth L. Schmitz, H. S. Harris, Joseph Owens, and Thomas Langan. With the help of a Fulbright scholarship, he spent the 1988-1989 academic year at the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans-Friedrich Fulda, and Günter Figal. He taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, from 1991 to 1995. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998. He has been teaching at Fordham University since 1998.

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