Below is the audio recording of Virginia Held’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy, Feminism, and Care,” given at the 2018 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Philosophy, Feminism, and Care” by Virginia Held.
Virginia Held is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Hunter College. She earned her PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and has also taught at Barnard College/Columbia University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, UCLA, and Hamilton College. Held’s research interests include social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, limits on markets, and group responsibility. Her books include How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (Oxford University Press, 2006). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social Philosophy, The Journal of Ethics, Political Theory, and Social Theory and Practice. She also served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2001–2002.
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