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. 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

Sim received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Vanderbilt University, where she was influenced by Alasdair MacIntyre, her doctoral advisor. Sim's dissertation was titled, "Aristotle’s Understanding of Form and Universals".