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Chris Howard

Academic title(s): 

Associate 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
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 麻豆区, he was a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Current research: 

Chris Howard works mostly at the intersection of normative ethics and metaethics, but also enjoys writing and talking about issues in political philosophy and moral psychology. Chris is also increasingly interested in ethical issues related to technology, particularly those concerning virtual and mixed reality, as well as the structure and governance of digital spaces.

Selected publications: 
  • Howard, C., & Leary, S. (provisionally forthcoming). Non-naturalism without contingentism. Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 21.
  • Howard, C. (in press). The fittingness-first approach. In D. Copp & C. Rosati (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Metaethics.
  • Howard, C. (2023). Forever fitting feelings. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 107(1), 80鈥�98.
  • Howard, C. (2023). Fitting attitude theories of value. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition).
  • Howard, C. (2021). Consequentialists must kill. Ethics, 131(4), 727鈥�753.
  • Howard, C. (2019). The fundamentality of fit. Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 14, 216鈥�236.
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