May Sim

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May Sim
Born1962 (age 6061)
Education Vanderbilt University
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Thesis Aristotle's Understanding of Form and Universals  (1989)
Doctoral advisor Alasdair C. MacIntyre

May Sim (born 1962) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at College of the Holy Cross. She is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2013). [1] She is noted for her comparative studies of Confucian and Aristotelian ethics. She was influenced by Alasdair MacIntyre, who supervised her doctoral dissertation at Vanderbilt University. [2]

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