Chris Howard
Assistant Professor
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 苹果淫院, he was a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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.
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.