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Introduction to Symposium on New Work on Character

Introduction to Symposium on New Work on Character These are exciting times to be working on character. New monographs are appearing every year. Several important collections have just come out (Snow 2014, Timpe and Boyd 2014, Miller et al. 2015, Annas et al. 2016, Webber and Masala 2016, Fileva 2016, Sinnott-Armstrong and Miller 2017). Much interesting new work is appearing in the journals.This symposium is an important contribution to this surge of philosophical activity on character. It engages with some of the most recent work being produced, and advances the discussion even further on a number of fronts.Let me briefly note how these papers came about. For five years, I was the director of the Character Project at Wake Forest University (www.thecharacterproject.com). One of our main activities was to organize three funding competitions in the areas of philosophy, theology, and psychology. The end result was that we funded 28 projects by mostly early career researchers so that they could conduct new empirical studies, write a book manuscript, or prepare several new papers.By now these projects have been completed and have generated an enormous amount of research on character in these three disciplines. Results from all of these projects can be found in a new edited volume (Miller http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Introduction to Symposium on New Work on Character

Miller, Christian B.
Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 14 (6): 2 – Dec 9, 2017
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These are exciting times to be working on character. New monographs are appearing every year. Several important collections have just come out (Snow 2014, Timpe and Boyd 2014, Miller et al. 2015, Annas et al. 2016, Webber and Masala 2016, Fileva 2016, Sinnott-Armstrong and Miller 2017). Much interesting new work is appearing in the journals.This symposium is an important contribution to this surge of philosophical activity on character. It engages with some of the most recent work being produced, and advances the discussion even further on a number of fronts.Let me briefly note how these papers came about. For five years, I was the director of the Character Project at Wake Forest University (www.thecharacterproject.com). One of our main activities was to organize three funding competitions in the areas of philosophy, theology, and psychology. The end result was that we funded 28 projects by mostly early career researchers so that they could conduct new empirical studies, write a book manuscript, or prepare several new papers.By now these projects have been completed and have generated an enormous amount of research on character in these three disciplines. Results from all of these projects can be found in a new edited volume (Miller

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Published: Dec 9, 2017

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