Carol C. Gould

Carol C. Gould is Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department at Hunter College and in the Doctoral Programs in Philosophy and Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. She is the Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Gould is the author of Marx's Social Ontology (MIT Press, 1978), Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2004), which won the 2009 David Easton Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014, and was awarded the 2015 Joseph B. Gittler Prize of the American Philosophical Association. Gould has edited or co-edited seven books, including Women and Philosophy (1976), The Information Web: Ethical and Social Issues in Computer Networking (1989), Gender (1999), and Cultural-Identity and the Nation-State (2003), and has published over 80 articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of law, and applied ethics. She has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Woodrow Wilson International Centers for Scholars. In 2015-16, she was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.