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Chris Howard

Academic title(s): 

Assistant Professor

Chris Howard
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-396-1989
Email address: 
chris.howard [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
LEA 919
Curriculum vitae: 
PDF icon cv-chrishoward-web.pdf
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Research areas: 
Ethics
Biography: 

Chris Howard earned his PhD from the University of Arizona in 2017, an MA from Brandeis University in 2011, and a BA from Wheaton College (Norton, MA) in 2009. Before coming to 不良研究所, he was a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Current research: 

Much of Chris鈥� current research focuses on what we should want, think, and feel 鈥� in short, the question of what attitudes we should have, what our mental lives should look like. In a series of papers, he develops a pluralistic ethics of attitudes that says that facts about which attitudes we ought to hold are a function of both considerations of fittingness (aptness, worthiness) and considerations of goodness, or benefit.

Selected publications: 

鈥淔itting Love and Reasons for Loving鈥� (forthcoming) Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, 9.

鈥淲eighing Epistemic and Practical Reasons for Belief鈥� (forthcoming) Philosophical Studies.

鈥淭he Fundamentality of Fit鈥� (2019) Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 14: 216-236.

鈥淔ittingness鈥� (2018) Philosophy Compass, 13: e12542.

鈥淚n Defense of the Wrong Kind of Reason鈥� (2016) Thought, 1: 53-62.

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