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Virginia Held

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Education

  • Ph.D. Columbia University
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Research Interests

  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Limits on Markets
  • Group Responsibility

Courses Recently Taught

  • New Developments in the Ethics of Care (Spring 2009)

Representative Publications

  • How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (Oxford University Press, 2008)

  • The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global, (Oxford University Press, 2006)

  • Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society and Politics, (Univ. of Chicago, 1993)

  • Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action, (Free Press/Macmillan, 1984)

  • The Public Interest and Individual Interests, (Basic Books, 1972)

  • Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics, Editor (Westview, 1995)

  • Property, Profits, and Economic Justice, Editor (Wadsworth, 1980)

  • Philosophy, Morality, and International Affairs, Co-editor (Oxford Univ. Press, 1974)

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How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence

How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence

by Virginia Held Distinguished Professor Emerita, Philosophy, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Women's and Gender Studies

In a combination of new and previously published essays, Held examines the nature of terrorism and evaluates justifications for using violence, such as in self-defense or to enforce the rule of law. She addresses the connection between terrorism and humiliation and considers military intervention, conventional war, intervention to protect human rights, violence to prevent political change, and the status and requirements of international law. She looks at the cases of Rwanda, Kosovo, Iraq, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Finally, Held explores questions of who has legitimate authority to engage in justifiable uses of violence, whether groups can be responsible for ethnic violence, and how the media should cover terrorism. 

Published March 2011
Oxford University Press, 2011

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