Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentive

Professor Ruth Grant (Duke University)

The Boston College Clough Center's John Marshall Lectures in Political Philosophy invites you to a lecture by Professor Ruth Grant (Duke University).

On Friday, March 28, 2014, Prof. Ruth Grant will give a lecture on "Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives.  The lecture will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Higgins Hall, Room 300.

Immediately following the lecture, a dinner and discussion will be held at the McElroy Faculty Dining Hall, in McElroy Commons.  Interim Provost Joseph Quinn will be the discussant.

RSVPs will be required for dinner.  Please RSVP to the Clough Center [email protected]> by March 25, 2014, if you plan to attend the dinner.

COPIES of Prof. Grant's paper are available in McGuinn 201.

This event is organized by Prof. Robert K. Faulkner, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.

Ruth Grant is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and Senior Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. She specializes in political theory with a particular interest in early modern philosophy and political ethics. She is the author of Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, John Locke's Liberalism, and Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics, and the editor of In Search of Goodness, and Naming Evil, Judging Evil. Her articles have appeared in a variety of journals with audiences in several fields, including political science, medicine, law, education, economics, 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.

Joseph Quinn is the Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculties and Professor of Economics at Boston College.  He was the James P. McIntyre Professor of Economics from 2007 to 2013.  He was the former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1999 to 2007.  His research interests include labor economics, the economics of aging, and social security reform. Dr. Quinn is on the board of directors and the executive committee of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Previously, he served on the selection panel for the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, was a member of the board of governors of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security in Amsterdam, a member of the editorial board of the Review of Income and Wealth, and a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council.

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