Cindy Holder
Professor of Philosophy | University of Victoria, Canada
Transitional Justice, Group Rights, Human Rights
One of the things I really struggle with is how to reconcile a commitment to human rights with acceptance that humans are just one small part of life on this planet — and not necessarily the most important part at that.
Selected Publications
What Do Apologies Really Change? Andrew Cohen’s Apologies and Moral Repair
Cindy Holder, 2024, Reason Papers.
Indigenous Rights to Land
Cindy Holder in Deen Chatterjee, ed, 2011, Springer Science & Business Media.
Whose Wrong Is It Anyway? Reflecting on the Public-ness of Public Apologies
Cindy Holder, 2014, Palgrave Macmillan.
Human Rights: The Hard Questions
Cindy Holder and David Reidy (Eds), 2013, Cambridge University Press.
Selected 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 of Baltimore, Baltimore, 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 Administration, University of Victoria, January 16, 2020.
- Paper Presentation: “Epistemic and Other Functions of Truth Commissions”, AMINTAPHIL bi-annual conference, Chicago, IL, Sep 21-23, 2023.
- Paper Presentation: “The Right to Truth and Women’s Human Rights”, Special Workshop: Philosophical Perspectives on Women’s Human Rights, IVR World Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 7-12, 2019.
Recent Courses
- Ethics of War, Violence and Terrorism
- Selected Topics: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Philosophy of Law
- Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Law: International Human Rights
- The Right to Truth
