Virginia Held - Care Ethics and the Economy

By Virginia Held ( City University of New York, USA ) @ the IEF 1st International Colloquium 'Roads to Care'

What might a caring society’s economic system look like? What would the ethics of care recommend for the ways we conduct and organize economic activity? From the perspective of care, what should we say about capitalism, socialism, and better alternatives? I will try, in this talk, to explore these questions.

Virginia Held is a professor emerita of philosophy at the City University of New York. Among her books are 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 ( University of Chicago Press, 1993 ); Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action ( Free Press, 1984 ); and The Public Interest and Individual Interests ( Basic Books, 1970 ). In 2001-2002 she was President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. In recent years, she has published numerous articles on care ethics and global problems.