Philosophy Department Faculty
Micah Lott
Associate Professor
Micah Lott
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall North Room 245
Telephone: 617-552-3870
Email: micah.lott@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Courses
What is Democracy and What is it Worth?
Contemporary Aristotelian Ethics
Good and Evil
Research Interests
Ethics
Meta-ethics
Political Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
Department
Recent Publications
- "The Knowledge of Human Dignity" in The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe ed. Roger Teichman (forthcoming)
- "Practical Intelligibility and Moral Skepticism: Should Realists Worry about Grass-Counters and Hand-Claspers?" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2021)
- "Eudaimonism, Egoism, and Responsibility for Oneself" Journal of Philosophical Research (2020)
- "Moral Duties and Divine Commands: Is Kantian Religion Coherent?" Faith and Philosophy (2020)"Why Be a Good Human Being? Natural Goodness, Reason, and the Authority of Human Nature" Philosophia 42.3 (2014) 761-777.
- "Does Human Nature Conflict with Itself? Human Form and the Harmony of the Virtues" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 87, No.4 (2013) 657-683.
- "Have Elephant Seals Refuted Aristotle? Nature, Function, and Moral Goodness", Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 9, Number 3, (2012), pp. 353-375(23).
- “Moral Virtue as Knowledge of Human Form”, Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 38, no. 3 (2012) pp. 407-431.