Background
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Before coming to The College of William and Mary, Radcliffe was Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara 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’s publications have appeared in several major philosophy journals. She is editor of A Companion to Hume (Blackwell, 2008) and co-editor of Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell, 2007). She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Philosophy Compass. She was co-editor of the journalHume Studies, with Kenneth Winkler from 2000-2005. Radcliffe has been the recipient of an NEH Summer Stipend and two NEH Research Fellowships.
Professor 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 passions and on reasons for action.