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]
^Karen, Kovach (2005), "Held, Virginia Potter (1929–)", in Shook, John R. (ed.), The dictionary of modern American philosophers (4 volume set), Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 1083–1084, ISBN 9781843710370
^Saunder-Sault, Maureen (2011). Care Ethics. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
^Tong, Williams, Rosemarie, Nancy (2009). Feminist Ethics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Smiley, Marion (June 1999). "Norms and Values: Essays on the Works of Virginia Held.(Review)". American Political Science Review. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2013 – via HighBeam Research.
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