Marcia Baron

Marcia Baron is an American philosopher and the Rudy Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington. Her main research interests include moral philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophical issues in criminal law. She has authored books on Immanuel Kant and David Hume, and has published extensively on topics such as interpersonal relationships, justifications and excuses, and the ethics of Kant and Hume. Baron has also written on a variety of topics related to philosophical issues of criminal law, including defenses to bodily crimes, mens rea, and the standards of control and reasonableness people should be held to.