Cindy Holder

Cindy Holder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include political philosophy, legal theory, and feminist philosophy. She is currently working on philosophical issues in international law, and the relationship between human rights and self-determination. Dr. Holder received her Ph. D. from the University of Arizona in 2001. She has been at the University of Victoria since July 2001. (C.V.)

Selected Work

Publications

• forthcoming: “Devolving Power to Sub-State Groups: Some Worries about the Worries”, The Monist (January 2012)
• forthcoming: “Justice Beyond Distribution: Poverty and Natural Resources” in Public Affairs Quarterly (2012)
• forthcoming: “Justice, Cosmopolitanism and Policy Prescription in Gillian Brock’s Global Justice”, Diametros (March 2012)
• forthcoming: “Human Rights Without Hierarchy: Claims, Rights and Normative Force”, Journal of Global Ethics 7:3 (2011).
• forthcoming: “Human Rights After 9/11: Some Philosophical Issues” in Human Rights After 9/11, George Andreopoulos, ed. (Kumarion: 2012).
• forthcoming “Indigenous Rights to Land”, in Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Deen Chatterjee, ed. (Springer: 2011).
• “Democratic Authority from the Outside Looking In: States, Common Worlds and Wrongful Connections”, Journal of Economic and Social Philosophy 5:3 (August 2011).
• “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.
• forthcoming: “Comments on Robert Card” in Adrianne McEvoy, ed., Philosophy of Sex and Love (Rodopi, Value Inquiry Book Series: Amsterdam, NL, 2010).
• “G.J. Warnock”, “F.S. McNeilly” and “Howard Warrender” in Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, vol. II, Stuart Brown, ed. (Thoemmes Publishers: 2005).

Some Past Presentations

• “Rearticulating Reconciliation”, ISA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Mar 2, 2007.
• “Human Rights After 9/11: Some Philosophical Issues”(commentary on papers by Larry May, J. Angelo Corlett, Gary Herbert), John Jay Gould Conference on Human Rights, New York, NY, October 27-28, 2006.
• “Human Rights and Communal Sovereignty: Must They Be At Odds?”, DemCon Conference on Supranational Political Community, Victoria, BC, Sep 30-Oct 2, 2005.
• “Rethinking Collective Agency”, NASSP Annual Meeting, Troy, NY, July 28-30, 2005.
• “Is Failure to be Feminist a Symptom of Inadequacy? The Case of Democratic Theory”, UBC Summer Workshop in Feminism and Philosophy, Vancouver, BC, June 17, 2005.
• Paper: “Human Rights and the Normativity of International Law”, Workshop on Human Rights, IVR Annual Meeting, Granada, Spain, May 27, 2005.
• “Devolution of Power and Jurisdictional Legitimacy: Why Group Characteristics Don’t Matter”, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Omaha, NE. July 29-31, 2004.

Classes Taught

• Phil 100: Introduction to Philosophy
• Phil 236: Introduction to Political Philosophy
• Phil 239: Feminism and Philosophy
• Phil 433: Topics in Political Philosophy
• Phil 500: Graduate Proseminar
• Phil 533: Self-Determination of Peoples