Edited Collection

Christian Miller, Angela Knobel, R. Michael Furr, and William Fleeson edited a collection of papers entitled Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (Oxford University Press, 2015). It features a chapter by each of the 28 funding competition winners, as well as a chapter by Professors Miller, Knobel, and (jointly) Furr and Fleeson. It is available for purchase here.

Below is the Table of Contents:

• Introduction

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

• Section 1: Overview of the Study of Character in Philosophy and Psychology

  • Chapter 1: “Some Foundational Questions in Philosophy about Character,” Christian B. Miller and Angela Knobel
  • Chapter 2: “Personality Science and the Foundations of Character,” William Fleeson, R. Michael Furr, Eranda Jayawickreme, Erik G. Helzer, Anselma G. Hartley, and Peter Meindl

• Section 2: Beliefs about Character

  • Chapter 3: “Lay Beliefs in True Altruism versus Universal Egoism,” Jochen E. Gebauer, Constantine Sedikides, Mark R. Leary, and Jens B. Asendorpf
  • Chapter 4: “Understanding the Importance and Perceived Structure of Moral Character,” Geoffrey P. Goodwin, Jared Piazza, and Paul Rozin

• Section 3: The Existence and Nature of Character

  • Chapter 5: “Moving Character Beyond the Person-Situation Debate – The Stable and Dynamic Nature of Virtues in Everyday Life,” Wiebke Bleidorn
  • Chapter 6: “Character Traits in the Workplace: A Three-Month Diary Study of Moral and Immoral Organizational Behaviors,” Taya R. Cohen and A. T. Panter
  • Chapter 7: “The Mixed Trait Model of Character Traits and the Moral Domains of Resource Distribution and Theft,” Christian B. Miller
  • Chapter 8: “Emotion and Character,” Charles Starkey

• Section 4: Character and Ethical Theory

  • Chapter 9: “Taking Moral Risks and Becoming Virtuous,” Rebecca Stangl
  • Chapter 10: “Dispositions, Character, and the Value of Acts,” Bradford Cokelet
  • Chapter 11: “Exemplarism and Admiration,” Linda Zagzebski

• Section 5: Virtue Epistemology

  • Chapter 12: “People Listen to People Who Listen: Instilling Virtues of Deference,” Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij
  • Chapter 13: “‘Why Can't We Be Friends?’ Reflections on Empirical Psychology and Virtue Epistemology,” Nathan L. King
  • Chapter 14: “From Virtue Epistemology to Abilism: Theoretical and Empirical Developments,” John Turri

• Section 6: Particular Virtues

  • Chapter 15: “Christian Humility as a Social Virtue,” Mike Austin
  • Chapter 16: “A Different Kind of Wisdom,” Angela Knobel
  • Chapter 17: “Bearing Burdens and the Character of God in the Hebrew Bible,” Cristian Mihut
  • Chapter 18: “Domain Specificity in Self-Control,” Angela Lee Duckworth and Eli Tsukayama
  • Chapter 19: “Can Text Messages Make People Kinder?” Sara Konrath

• Section 7: Character Development

  • Chapter 20: “The Emergence of Moral Character in Infancy: Developmental Changes and Individual Differences in Fairness Concerns and Prosocial Behavior during the First Two Years of Life,” Jessica A. Sommerville
  • Chapter 21: “Character Development in the School Years: Relations among Theory of Mind, Moral Identity and Positive and Negative Behavior toward Peers,” Elizabeth A. Boerger and Anthony J. Hoffman
  • Chapter 22: “Character across Early Emerging Adulthood: Character Traits, Character Strivings, and Moral Self-Attributes,” Erik E. Noftle
  • Chapter 23: “Etiquette and Exemplarity in Judaism,” Tzvi Novick
  • Chapter 24: “Christian Character Formation and the Infusion of Grace,” Ray S. Yeo
  • Chapter 25: “Necessity and Human Agency: Cultivating Character in the Reformed Christian Tradition,” Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
  • Chapter 26: “Liturgy and the Moral Life,” Terence Cuneo
  • Chapter 27: “Cultivating Virtues through Sartorial Practices: The Case of the Islamic Veil in Indonesia,” Elizabeth M. Bucar

• Section 8: Challenges to Character and Virtue from Neuroscience and Situationism

  • Chapter 28: “Character Traits and the Neuroscience of Social Behavior,” Daniel McKaughan
  • Chapter 29: “Character and Coherence: Testing the Stability of Naturalistically Observed Daily Moral Behavior,” Matthias R. Mehl, Kathryn L. Bollich, John M. Doris, and Simine Vazire
  • Chapter 30: “Taking Evil into the Lab: Exploring the Frontiers of Morality and Individual Differences,” David Gallardo-Pujol, Elizabet Orekhova, Verónica Benet-Martínez, and Mel Slater
  • Chapter 31: “War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame,” Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale

• Index