May Sim

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.

May Sim
Born	1962 (age 62–63) Singapore
Education
Education	Vanderbilt University
Thesis	Aristotle's Understanding of Form and Universals (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Ancient Greek & Classical Chinese Comparative Philosophy

Education

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

• 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.