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Ruth W. Grant, Professor

Ruth W. Grant
Contact Info:
Office Location:  301B Perkins Library
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4316
Email Address:  
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/~grant

Teaching (Fall 2008):

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

Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, specializes in political theory with particular interest in early modern philosophy and political ethics. She is the author of two books: John Locke's Liberalism, and Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics. She has published articles in major journals in political science, law, and education as well as in Economics and Philosophy and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. She has received fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Humanities Center. She is currently working on an edited volume called "Naming Evil, Judging Evil" and on a project on the ethics of incentives.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. R.W. Grant, Passions and Interests Revisited: the Psychological Foundations of Economics and Politics, Public Choice (forthcoming) .
  2. R.W. Grant, Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach, American Political Science Review (February, 2006) .
  3. Naming Evil, Judging Evil, edited by Ruth W. Grant with a forward by Alasdair MacIntyre (2006), University of Chicago Press .
  4. R.W. Grant, The Rousseauan Revolution and the Problem of Evil, in Naming Evil, Judging Evil, Ruth W. Grant ed. (2006), University of Chicago Press .
  5. R.W. Grant, Is Humanistic Education Humanizing?, in Debating Moral Education, Peter Euben and Elizabeth Kiss, eds. (forthcoming), Duke University Press .