May Sim
May Sim | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Education | |
| Education | Vanderbilt University |
| Thesis | Aristotle's Understanding of Form and Universals (1989) |
| Alasdair C. MacIntyre | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Ancient Greek & Classical Chinese Comparative Philosophy |
May Sim (Chinese: 沈美华; born 1962) is a Singaporean-born American philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. She served as the president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 2013.[1] She is known for her comparative studies of Confucian and Aristotelian ethics as well as her account of human rights, which draw on Confucian and Aristotelian thought, philosophies not traditionally linked to talk of rights.
Education
[edit]Sim received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Vanderbilt University,[2] where she was influenced by Alasdair MacIntyre, her doctoral advisor.[3] Sim's dissertation was titled, "Aristotle’s Understanding of Form and Universals".[1]
Publications
[edit]- Sim, May, ed. (1995). The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-7939-X. OCLC 31328463.[4][5]
- Sim, May (2007). Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511497841. ISBN 978-0-511-29065-7. OCLC 213380426.[6][7][8][9][10]
- Sim, May (December 6, 2017). "The Phronimos and the Sage". In Snow, Nancy E. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Virtue. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199385195.013.33. ISBN 9780199385195.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "May Sim". College of the Holy Cross.
- ↑ Aristotle's Understanding of Form and Universals (PhD Thesis thesis). Vanderbilt University. 1989.
- ↑ "May Sim".
- ↑ Bole, Thomas J. (1995). "Review of The Crossroads of Norm and Nature". Southwest Philosophy Review. 11 (2): 275–286. doi:10.5840/swphilreview199511240. ISSN 0897-2346.
- ↑ Siorvanes, Lucas (October 2000). "Review of The Crossroads of Norm and Nature". The Classical Review. 50 (2): 626–628. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00840056. ISSN 1464-3561. S2CID 231888227.
- ↑ Mulvey, Ben (2009). "Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius". Teaching Philosophy. 32 (2): 209–213. doi:10.5840/teachphil200932221. ISSN 0145-5788.
- ↑ Tiles, J. E. (2008). "Review of Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius". China Review International. 15 (2): 296–304. ISSN 1069-5834. JSTOR 23733147.
- ↑ Swanton, Christine (2009). "Review of Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius". Philosophy East and West. 59 (2): 230–233. doi:10.1353/pew.0.0048. ISSN 0031-8221. JSTOR 40213569. S2CID 170366004.
- ↑ Wardy, Robert (2010). "Review of Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius". The Philosophical Review. 119 (2): 250–255. doi:10.1215/00318108-2009-040. ISSN 0031-8108. JSTOR 41684377.
- ↑ Van Norden, Bryan (March 2009). "Sim, May, Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius". Dao. 8 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1007/s11712-008-9094-5. ISSN 1569-7274. S2CID 170205951.
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