Character Trouble Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

by Doris, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780198719601
• ISBN10: 0198719604
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

John M. Doris, Cornell University

John M. Doris is Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at Cornell University. His many contributions to the field of moral psychology have appeared in leading philosophical and scientific journals, such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Cognition, Scientific
American, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has been awarded fellowships from Michigan's Institute for the Humanities; Princeton's University Center for Human Values; the National Humanities Center; the American Council of Learned Societies;
Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002) and Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford, 2015), and is co-editor of The Moral
Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010) and The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (Oxford, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics
2. Evidence and Sensibility
3. Out of Character: On the Psychology of Excuses in the Criminal Law
4. Variantism about Responsibility, John M. Doris, Joshua Knobe, and Robert L. Woolfolk
5. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: The Moral Psychology of Atrocity, John M. Doris and Dominic Murphy
6. Heated Agreement: Lack of Character as Being for the Good
7. Doing Without (Arguing about) Desert
8. No Excuses: Performance Mistakes in Morality, Santiago Amaya and John M. Doris
9. Pr?cis of Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency
10. Making Good: Virtues, Skills, and Performance Science
11. The Future of Character
Appendix: An Open Letter to Our Students: Doing Interdisciplinary Moral Psychology, Edouard Machery and John M. Doris