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Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology

Christian B. Miller, R. Michael Furr, Angela Knobel, and William Fleeson

Abstract

This book contains new work on character from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and psychology. From a virtual reality simulation of the Milgram shock experiments, to understanding the virtue of modesty in Muslim societies, to defending soldiers’ moral responsibility for committing war crimes, these chapters break new ground and significantly advance our understanding of character. The main topics covered fall under the heading of our beliefs about character, the existence and nature of character traits, character and ethical theory, virtue epistemology, the nature of particular virtue ... More

Keywords: character, virtue, vice, situationism, character trait, character development, disposition, personality

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780190204600
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190204600.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Christian B. Miller, editor

R. Michael Furr, editor

Angela Knobel, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Introduction

Christian B. Miller, R. Michael Furr, Angela Knobel, and William Fleeson

Part I Overview of the Study of Character in Philosophy and Psychology

1 Some Foundational Questions in Philosophy about Character

Christian B. Miller and Angela Knobel

2 Personality Science and the Foundations of Character

William Fleeson, R. Michael Furr, Eranda Jayawickreme, Erik G. Helzer, Anselma G. Hartley, and Peter Meindl

Part II Beliefs about Character

3 Lay Beliefs in True Altruism versus Universal Egoism

Jochen E. Gebauer, Constantine Sedikides, Mark R. Leary, and Jens B. Asendorpf

4 Understanding the Importance and Perceived Structure of Moral Character

Geoffrey P. Goodwin, Jared Piazza, and Paul Rozin

Part III The Existence and Nature of Character

5 Moving Character beyond the Person-Situation Debate

Wiebke Bleidorn

6 Character Traits in the Workplace

Taya R. Cohen and A. T. Panter

7 The Mixed Trait Model of Character Traits and the Moral Domains of Resource Distribution and Theft

Christian B. Miller

8 Emotion and Character

Charles Starkey

Part IV Character and Ethical Theory

9 Taking Moral Risks and Becoming Virtuous

Rebecca Stangl

10 Dispositions, Character, and the Value of Acts

Bradford Cokelet

11 Exemplarism and Admiration

Linda Zagzebski

Part V Virtue Epistemology

12 People Listen to People Who Listen

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij

13 “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”

Nathan L. King

14 From Virtue Epistemology to Abilism

John Turri

Part VI Particular Virtues

15 Christian Humility as a Social Virtue

Michael W. Austin

16 A Different Kind of Wisdom

Angela Knobel

17 Bearing Burdens and the Character of God in the Hebrew Bible

Cristian Mihut

18 Domain Specificity in Self-Control

Angela Lee Duckworth and Eli Tsukayama

19 Can Text Messages Make People Kinder?

Sara Konrath

Part VII Character Development

20 The Emergence of Moral Character in Infancy

Jessica A. Sommerville

21 Character Development in the School Years

Elizabeth A. Boerger and Anthony J Hoffman

22 Character across Early Emerging Adulthood

Erik E. Noftle

23 Etiquette and Exemplarity in Judaism

Tzvi Novick

24 Christian Character Formation and the Infusion of Grace

Ray S. Yeo

25 Necessity and Human Agency

Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

26 Liturgy and the Moral Life

Terence D. Cuneo

27 Cultivating Virtues through Sartorial Practices

Elizabeth M. Bucar

Part VIII Challenges to Character and Virtue from Neuroscience and Situationism

28 Character Traits and the Neuroscience of Social Behavior

Daniel J. McKaughan

29 Character and Coherence

Matthias R. Mehl, Kathryn L. Bollich, John M. Doris, and Simine Vazire

30 Taking Evil into the Lab

David Gallardo-Pujol, Elizabet Orekhova, Verónica Benet-Martínez, and Mel Slater

31 War Crimes

Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale

End Matter

Index