Carol C. Gould is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at Temple University. She is the Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy, President of the American Section of the International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, and Executive Director of the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. Gould has held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Fulbright Foundation, as Senior Scholar in France and as Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of Marx's Social Ontology (MIT Press, 1978), Rethinking Democracy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge, 2004), editor of seven books including Women and Philosophy, Beyond Domination, The Information Web, Cultural Identity and the Nation-State, and Gender, and has published over sixty articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and applied ethics.