Spring ‘10:
School of Athens
February 5th
Ruth Grant, “Strings Attached: Ethics, Incentives, and Democracy”
Ruth Grant is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and is currently in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. She is the author of John Locke’s Liberalism (Chicago, 1987) and Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics (Chicago, 1999) and the editor of Naming Evil, Judging Evil (Chicago, 2006) and of John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Hackett, 1996). She has also published articles in American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Public Choice, and the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. She is currently working on a book entitled Strings Attached: The Ethics of Incentives.
February 19th
Harvey Flaumenhaft, “Exegesis and the Executive: How the Founders Disagreed about What a President Is”
Harvey Flaumenhaft is a member of the faculty and a former dean at St. John’s College in Annapolis. He is the author of The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton (Duke, 1992).
March 22nd
Stanley C. Brubaker, “Coming into One’s Own: John Locke’s Theory of Property, God, and Politics”
Stanley C. Brubaker is Professor of Political Science at Colgate University and the current Director of Colgate University’s Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He teaches in the fields of constitutional law, political philosophy, and American politics and government. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, Commentary, The Journal of Politics, The Review of Politics, Constitutional Commentary, The Public Interest, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, among others. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Earhart Foundation, and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. His dissertation, a biography of Benjamin Cardozo, won the Edward S. Corwin Award from the American Political Science Association. He is currently completing two works, The Constitution of Self-Government, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, and John Locke on Property, Politics, and God.
April 15th
Paul Rahe, “Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty”
Paul Rahe is the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He has also taught at Yale, Cornell, Franklin and Marshall, and Tulsa. He is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (UNC, 1992), Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (Cambridge, 2008), Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale, 2009), and Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (Yale, 2009), as well as articles in History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, American Historical Review, and Political Science Reviewer.
Times and Location: All talks are held on the campus of American University in the Archives Reading Room (#320) of Bender Library from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome!