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Avner Baz is a Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences. He specializes in ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein and Kant, with a focus on ordinary language philosophy and philosophical method. His work critiques representationalist approaches and advocates for contextualist insights from ordinary language traditions. Recent research explores aspect perception through Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, emphasizing the interplay between perception and language.
Education: PhD from University of Illinois at Chicago (2000) and MA from Tel-Aviv University (1994). His publications include When Words are Called For (2012) and The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (2017). Current projects address transcendental idealism’s relevance and critique of moral modals in ethics.
Teaching focuses on courses like Knowing and Being, Phenomenology and Existentialism, and seminars on Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy. Professional activities include conference presentations and administrative roles, including chairing the Department of Philosophy (2018-2024).
