The Dean’s Office has announced that Associate Professor May Sim of the philosophy department has received tenure.
Sim earned her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Contributing editor of The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics (1995) and From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle’s Dialectic (1999), she has recently undertaken several research projects, including “Confucian Rights in Practice,” “The Question of Being, Non-Being and ‘Creation Ex Nihilo’ in Chinese Philosophy,” and “Is the Liezi an Encheiridion?” Sim’s new book, Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.
President of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Sim is also the chair of the nominating committee of the Metaphysical Society of America and director of the Translation Clearing House.
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