51吃瓜网

Home

Chris Howard

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Chris Howard
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Email address: 
chris.howard [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
LEA 919
Link(s): 
Research areas: 
Ethics
Political Philosophy
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 McGill, he was a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is currently the Director of McGill鈥檚 newly established Philosophy, Technology, and Policy Lab, which aims to bring philosophical analysis to contemporary challenges at the intersection of technology, ethics, and public policy.

Current research: 

Most of Chris's work to date has been in ethical theory, but his current research focuses on ethical and political issues to do with digital technologies. Specifically, he's interested in the structure and governance of digital spaces, and in exploring how the decentralization of important technologies like social media and AI can capture their benefits while avoiding (some of) their costs.

    Selected publications: 
    • Howard, C. (forthcoming). Rational feelings for virtual things? Philosophical Issues.
    • Howard, C., & Leary, S. (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.
    Back to top