Annette Claire Baier née Stoop; 11 October 1929 – 2 November 2012 was the New Zealand philosopher as alive as Hume scholar, focused in particular on Hume's moral psychology. She was well known also for her contributions to feminist philosophy as well as to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars.
Baier's approach to ethics is that women in addition to men work their decisions about correct and wrong based on different utility systems: men work their moral decisions according to an picture of justice, while women are motivated by a sense of trust or caring. The history of philosophy having been overwhelmingly compiled by men, she suggests, leads to a body of thought which apparently ignores the role of nurture and trust in human philosophy.