Ruth W. Grant, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy edit
Office Location: 409 Perkins Library
Office Phone: (919) 660-4316
Fax: (919) 660-4330
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Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~grant/
Education:
PhD, University of Chicago, 1984
M.A., University of Chicago, 1975
B.A. with honors, University of Chicago, 1971
- Specialties:
- Political Theory
- Research Interests: Politics and Ethics, Early Modern Political Philosophy
- Ruth Grant is a Professor of Political Science at Duke University, specializing in political theory with a particular interest in early modern philosophy and political ethics. She is the author of John Locke's Liberalism, Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics, and the editor of Naming Evil, Judging Evil. She has also edited a companion volume, called In Search of Goodness, which is just being completed (June 2009). Her current book project is titled Strings Attached: The Ethics of Incentives. Her work originally focused on the historical study of liberal thought and has moved increasingly toward contemporary ethics. Her articles have appeared in a variety of journals including APSR, Political Theory, Journal of Politics, and Politics and Society. She has received fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the Russell Sage Foundation, and a teaching award from Duke University.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- R.W. Grant. "Passions and Interests Revisited: the Psychological Foundations of Economics and Politics." Public Choice (forthcoming).
- R.W. Grant. "Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach." American Political Science Review (February, 2006).
- Naming Evil, Judging Evil. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- R.W. Grant. "The Rousseauan Revolution and the Problem of Evil." Naming Evil, Judging Evil. Ruth W. Grant ed.University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- R.W. Grant. "Is Humanistic Education Humanizing?." Debating Moral Education. Peter Euben and Elizabeth Kiss, eds.Duke University Press, forthcoming.