Virginia Held
Virginia Held | |
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| File:Virginia Held at 2013 Mellon Sawyer Seminar.jpg Held at CUNY in 2013 | |
| Born | Virginia Potter Held October 28, 1929 (age 96) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Institutions | Columbia University, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center |
| Main interests | Ethics of care, feminist ethics, morality of political violence |
Virginia Potter Held (born October 28, 1929) is an American moral, social/political and feminist philosopher whose work on the ethics of care sparked significant research into the ethical dimensions of providing care for others and critiques of the traditional roles of women in society.[2][3][4]
Beliefs
[edit | edit source]Held defends care ethics as a moral framework distinct from Kantian, utilitarian and virtue ethics.[2] She holds that care is fundamental to human institutes and practices, indeed to our survival. Tong and Williams[3] quote: "There can be no ju[s]tice without care…for without care no child would survive and there would be no persons to respect."[5]
Held's work on the morality of political violence viewed through the window of ethics of care has also been significantly influential.[6]
Career
[edit | edit source]Held was named Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York – Graduate Center and Hunter College in 1996.
She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1968 and worked at Hunter College as lecturer (1965–69), assistant professor (1969–72), associate professor (1973–77) and full professor from 1977 to her retirement in 2001. Held was affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Center in 1973, and served as deputy executive officer of the Philosophy program at the CUNY Graduate Center from 1980 to 1984. She also served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2001–2002.[7]
Selected works
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Books
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Chapters in books
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Journal articles
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Encyclopedia articles
[edit | edit source]- Feminism and Political Theory in The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy[8]
- Rights: Moral and Legal from A Companion to Feminist Philosophy[9]
- Feminist Social and Political Philosophy in Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement (1997).[10]
- "Power" in Blackwell Dictionary of Business Ethics[11]
- Mass Media, Moral Pluralism in Encyclopedia of Ethics[12]
For further works see C.V.[7]
References
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- ^ Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care 2006, p. 17
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- ^ Held, Virginia. "Feminism and Political Theory", in The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
- ^ Held, Virginia. "Rights: Moral and Legal", in A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998.
- ^ Held, Virginia. "Feminist Social and Political Philosophy", in Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, New York: Macmillan, 1997.
- ^ Held, Virginia. "Power." Def. P. Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics. 1 ed. New York: Macmillan, 1998. Print.
- ^ Held, Virginia. "Mass Media" and "Moral Pluralism", in Encyclopedia of Ethics, New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1992.
External links
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- Virginia Held Papers - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
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- 1929 births
- 20th-century American philosophers
- American feminists
- American women philosophers
- Scholars of feminist philosophy
- American academics of women's studies
- Presidents of the American Philosophical Association
- Living people
- 20th-century American women
- 21st-century American women
- Columbia University alumni
- Hunter College faculty