Elizabeth Radcliffe

Professor

Office: James Blair 138
Email: [[eradcliffe]]
Office Phone: (757) 221-2720
Website: {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/eradcliffe}}

Background

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her areas of special interest include early modern philosophy, especially Hume and his contemporaries; moral philosophy and metaethics; and action theory and motivational psychology. Professor Radcliffe is editor of A Companion to Hume (Blackwell, 2008) and co-editor of Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell, 2007). Her publications have appeared in several major philosophy journals. She was co-editor of the journal Hume Studies, with Kenneth Winkler (from 2000-2005). Radcliffe has been active in the Hume Society for many years and will be a plenary speaker at the 2010 Hume Conference at the University of Antwerp.

Radcliffe’s current work is a book, Hume, Passion, and Action (under contract with Oxford University Press), on Hume's motivational psychology and contemporary debates that originate from it. She is also working on related articles on the topic of valuing and reasons for action.