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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 and of Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics. She is also the editor of two collections of essays; Naming Evil, Judging Evil and In Search of Goodness. Her most recent book is Strings Attached: Untangling Ethics of Incentives. For further information please visit http://www.facebook.com/stringsattachedbook. 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.

• POLSCI 184FS.01, Ancient and modern liberty Synopsis

  Carr 242, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• POLSCI 575S.01, Ancient pol philosophy Synopsis

  Perkins 307, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

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.

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