To all friends of Annette Baier,
This is to announce that Annette's funeral will be held on Wednesday 7th November at 2:30 p.m. at Hope and Sons funeral chapel, corner of Oxford and Andersons Bay Road, Dunedin. The event will be live-streamed. If you wish to be in virtual attendance, please got to http://www.hopeandsons.co.nz/live_streaming.php fifteen minutes before the service begins. Please note that a) that the Hope and Sons site can only accommodate about fifty visitors and b) that this is 2:30 pm New Zealand time, which is a long way in advance of the rest of the world.
It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Annette Baier, in Dunedin Hospital on the 2nd of November, where she had been admitted following heart problems earlier in the week. She was 83. Annette C Baier (nee Stoop) was born in 1929 and studied Philosophy at Otago and at Oxford. She taught at Aberdeen, Auckland and Sydney before emigrating to America with her husband Kurt Baier. She first taught at Carnegie Mellon, then at Pittsburgh, and it was at Pittsburgh that her career really took off. She became famous as a moral philosopher, a Hume scholar and a feminist, with books such as Postures of the Mind: Essays on Mind and Morals (1985), A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise (1991), Moral Prejudices (1995) and The Commons of the Mind (1997). She was also an inspiring and much loved teacher. She served as President of the Eastern Division of the APA (as did Kurt), gave the Paul Carus Lectures in Philosophy (as did Kurt), and was invited to be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (as was Kurt), making them perhaps the only husband and wife duo to achieve this trio of distinctions. In 1995, the Baiers retired to New Zealand dividing their time between Queenstown and Dunedin. She published four more books during her retirement: Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume (2008), The Cautious, Jealous Virtue: Hume on Justice (2010), Reflections on How We Live (2010) and The Pursuits of Philosophy (2011). Friends of Annette will be pleased to know that she was active in philosophy right up to the last, attending and contributing to the Otago Departmental Seminar with her customary wit and acuity to within a few weeks of her death. She will be sorely missed.
Contributed by:
Charles Pigden, Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Otago
New Zealand
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