Carol C. Gould

Carol C. Gould is an American philosopher. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, and Philosophy and Political Science the CUNY Graduate Center. Gould is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Her 2004 book Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights received the 2009 David Easton Award which is given by the American Political Science Association "for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science".

Gould's works cover political philosophy (e.g. democratic theory), the philosophy of human rights, social theory, and feminist philosophy. In Social Justice and the Limitation of Democracy, she sought to ground democratic political structures on an ideal of liberty understood as the equal right to self-development. Gould also employed such positive conception of liberty to describe a feminist ideal of androgyny, wherein a gender-free society is considered ideal and morally good. Gould, along with other thinkers such as Claudia Card, Marilyn Friedman, and Martha Nussbaum, link the ideal of androgynous society to other social and political ideals such as equal opportunity, welfare liberal justice, and socialist justice.

• Marx's Social Ontology: Individuality and Community in Marx's Theory of Social Reality (1978)
• Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society (1988)
• Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (2004)
• Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice (2014)