Helga Varden
Helga Varden | |
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| 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) |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Toronto (PhD) University of Tromsø (MA) LSE (MSc) Newcastle University (BA) |
| 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 advisors | Gopal Sreenivasan Sergio Tenenbaum Daniel Weinstock Sophia Moreau |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Kantian philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 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.