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Philosophy Department

Carol C. Gould, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
and Government
Director-Center for Global Ethics
Editor-Journal of Social Philosophy

Contact Information:
Office:
Email: cgould@gmu.edu
Phone: 703 993-4510

Office hours:
Leave of absence fall 06 and spring 07

courses:

Websites:
Homepage: http://mason.gmu.edu/%7Ecgould/
Center for Global Ethics: www.gmu.edu/centers/globalethics/
Journal of Social Philosophy: www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/josp

Areas of Interest:
Carol C. Gould is Professor of Philosophy and Government and Director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University. She is Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy and Executive Director of the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. Recently, she was Fulbright Florence Chair at the European University Institute and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She was also the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship.

Gould is the author of Marx's Social Ontology (MIT Press, 1978), Rethinking Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She is editor or co-editor of eight books including Beyond Domination: New Perspectives on Women and Philosophy; The Information Web: Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking; Gender; Cultural Identity and the Nation-State; and Constructivism and Practice: Toward a Historical Epistemology and has published over fifty articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory and applied ethics.

Gould has served on numerous committees of the American Philosophical Association, including Program Chair, Eastern Division; the International Cooperation Committee; and the Committee on the Status of Women. She served as President of the American Society of Value Inquiry and on the Executive Committee of Amintaphil and of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. She is also a member of the American Political Science Association and Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy and Contemporary Social Issues.