Biography
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.
Research Interests
Kant’s practial philosophy, Legal and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, applied ethics, philosophy of sex and love.
Education
Philosophy, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Philosophy, M.A., Arctic University of Norway
Philosophy, B.A., Arctic University of Norway
Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, MSc, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Business Management , B.A., University of Newcastle
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor of Women and Gender Studies
Professor of Political Science
Affiliate of The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Affiliate
Affiliate of The European Union Center
Affiliate of Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program
External Links
Recent Publications
Varden, Helga. "A Kantian Account of Trauma". Kantian Review. 2022, 27(4). 573-591. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136941542200036X
Varden, Helga. "Kant's Four Political Conditions: Barbarism, Anarchy, Despotism, and Republic". Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift. 2022, 57(3-4). 194-207.
Varden, Helga and Carol Hay "On the Challenges of Good Sex and the Temptations of Bad Sex,". The Palgrave Handbook Sexual Ethics. Chapter 5, Palgrave Macmillan. 2022, 73-92.
Varden, Helga. "IX - Kant and Arendt on Barbaric and Totalitarian Evil". Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society. 2021, 121(2). 221-248. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoab002
Varden, Helga "Locke on Property". and Gordon-Roth, Jessica Weinberg, Shelley (ed.). The Lockean Mind. Chapter 44, Routledge Philosophical Minds. Routledge. 2021, 428-437.