Cindy Holder

 

Cindy Holder is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on group rights, transitional justice and ethical and theoretical issues in international law, including the human right to truth, the human rights of indigenous peoples and official responses to gross and systematic violence such as truth commissions and official apologies. Her coedited volume Human Rights: The Hard Questions is available through Cambridge University Press. (Video.)

Dr. Holder received her Ph. D. from the University of Arizona.. She has been at the University of Victoria since July 2001.

Selected Publications

• “Human Rights Without Hierarchy: Why Theories of Global Justice Should Embrace the Indivisibility Principle” in Johnny Antonio Davilà, ed., Cuestiones de justicia global (Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia: 2020), pp. 125-150. (https://editorial.tirant.com/co/libro/cuestiones-de-justicia-global-johnny-antonio-davila-9788413369389?busqueda=justicia+global&)

• Editor, Philosophical Studies: 2019 Pacific APA, 177:2 (February 2020). https://link.springer.com/journal/11098/177/2

• “Whose Wrong Is It Anyway? Reflecting on the Public-ness of Public Apologies”, C4E Journal: Perspectives on Ethics, 2017 https://c4ejournal.net/2017/11/03/cindy-holder-whose-wrong-is-it-anyway-on-the-public-ness-of-public-apologies-2017-c4ej-8/

• “Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of State Regret” in Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler, eds. On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), Chapter 12: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/on-the-uses-and-abuses-of-political-apologies-mihaela-mihai/?k=9781137343710.

• “Transition, Trust and Partial Legality: On Colleen Murphy’s A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation", Criminal Law and Philosophy 8 (2014). Online first.

• “Truthfulness in Transition” in Larry May and Elizabeth Edenberg, eds., Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press: 2013), pp. 244-261.

• Co-editor, with David Reidy, Human Rights: The Hard Questions (Cambridge University Press: 2013): http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/human-rights-hard-questions.

  • Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

• “Devolving Power to Sub-State Groups: Some Worries about the Worries”, The Monist 95:1 (January 2012), 87-103.

• “Global Justice Beyond Distribution: Poverty and Natural Resources”, Public Affairs Quarterly 26:1 (January 2012), 33-44.

• “Justice, Cosmopolitanism and Policy Prescription in Gillian Brock’s Global Justice”, Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy (March 2012).

• “Indigenous Rights to Land”, in Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Deen Chatterjee, ed. (Springer: 2011), pp. 534-538.

• “Democratic Authority from the Outside Looking In: States, Common Worlds and Wrongful Connections”, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 5:3 (August 2011).

• “Comments on Robert Card” in Adrianne McEvoy, ed., Philosophy of Sex and Love (Rodopi, Value Inquiry Book Series: Amsterdam, NL, 2010).

• “Comments on Multicultural Odysseys”, Social Philosophy Today 25 (2009): 265-270.

• “Culture as an Activity and Human Right: An Important Advance for Indigenous Peoples and International Law”, Alternatives 33 (2008).

• “Who’s Sorry Now? Government Apologies, Truth Commissions and Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia, Canada, Guatemala and Peru”, Human Rights Review 9:4 (July/September 2008), with Jeff Corntassel, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria.

• “Responding to Humanitarian Crises” in War and Philosophy, Larry May, ed. (Cambridge University Press: 2008).

• “Indigenous Peoples and Multicultural Citizenship: Bridging the Gap Between Collective and Individual Rights”, Human Rights Quarterly 24:1 (February 2002), 126-151, with Jeff Corntassel, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria.

  • Reprinted in Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social and Cultural, Jeanne M. Woods and Hope Lewis, eds. (Transnational Publishers: New York, 2005).

• “Are Patriarchal Cultures Really a Problem? Rethinking Objections from Cultural Viciousness”, Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 12 (2002) 727-757.

• “Rethinking Political Justification” Journal of Value Inquiry 38 (2004), 511-529.

• “Self-Determination as a Basic Human Right: The Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” in Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev, eds, (Cambridge University Press: 2004), pp 294-316.

• “Culture as a Basic Human Right” in Diversity and Equality: Minorities and the Protection of Fundamental Freedoms, Avigail Eisenberg, ed (University of British Columbia Press: 2005), pp. 124-154.

• “Debating the Danish Cartoons: Civil Rights or Civil Power?”, UNB Law Journal 55 (2006), 179-185.

• “Self-Determination as a Universal Human Right”, Human Rights Review 7:4 (July-September 2006), 5-18.

Selected Past Presentations

• Paper Presentation: “Public Decision-making and the Logic of Governance: Taking the Collective Dimension Seriously”, Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics Conference on Legitimate Decision-making in Times of Crisis, University fo Baltimore, Baltoimore, MD, February 5, 2021.

• Panel Participant: From Declaration to Implementation - Putting UNDRIP to Work in B.C.,Centre for Indigenous Research and Communuty-Led Engagement and the School of Public Adminnistration, University of Victoria, January 16, 2020.

• Paper Presentation: “Indigenous Peoples Human Rights to Land: More than Cultural”, Workshop on Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation, Queens University, Kingston, ON September 6-8, 2019.

• Paper Presentation: “The Right to Truth and Women's Human Rights", Special Workshop: hHilosophical Perspectives on Wimen's Human Rights, IVR World Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 7-12, 2019.

Recent Courses

• PHIL 236 Introduction to Political Philosophy

• Selected Topics: The United Nations Declaration on the Rightsof Indigenous Peoples

• PHIL 336 Philosophy of Law

• Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Law: International Human Rights