Helga Varden | |
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Education | University of Toronto (PhD) University of Tromsø (MA) LSE (MSc) Newcastle University (BA) |
Awards | William and Flora Hewlett Grant (2012-13) IVR Prize for Young Scholars (2007) George Paxton Young Memorial Prize (2005) Markus Herz Award (2005) Research Council of Norway scholarship (2004-5) Fulbright Fellowship (2000) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Kantian philosophy |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Thesis | The Liberal Ideal of Political Obligations: The Lockean Voluntarist vs. Kant’s Non-Voluntarist Ideal of Political Obligations (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur Ripstein |
Other academic advisors | Gopal Sreenivasan Sergio Tenenbaum Daniel Weinstock Sophia Moreau |
Main interests | legal, political and feminist philosophy |
Website | https://helgavarden.com/ |
Helga Varden is a Norwegian-American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Gender and Women Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was Brady Distinguished Visiting Professor in Ethics and Civic Life at Northwestern University between 2014-2015. She is known for her works on Kantian philosophy.[1][2][3]
Helga Varden is a professor in philosophy (home department), in gender and women studies, and in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Varden’s main research interests are in Kant's practical philosophy as well as legal, political and feminist philosophy. In addition to her book—Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory (OUP 2020)—she has published on a range of classical philosophical issues, including Kant’s answer to the murderer at the door, private property, political obligations, and political legitimacy, as well as on applied issues such as terrorism, care relations, privacy, poverty, and our moral responsibilities for animals.[4]