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From Personality to Virtue
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From Personality
to Virtue
Essays on the Philosophy
of Character
EDITED BY
Alberto Masala and
Jonathan Webber
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ListofContributors vii
Introduction 1
AlbertoMasalaandJonathanWebber
1. Character,Punishment,andtheLiberalOrder 9
JonathanJacobs
2. VirtueEthicsandCriminalPunishment 35
KatrinaL.Sifferd
3. Character,Will,andAgency 62
RomanAltshuler
4. PracticalNecessityandPersonality 81
KatharinaBauer
5. ImplicitBias,Character,andControl 106
JulesHolroydandDanielKelly
6. InstillingVirtue 134
JonathanWebber
7. DoestheCAPSModelImproveOurUnderstanding
ofPersonalityandCharacter? 155
ChristianB.Miller
8. FriendshipandtheStructureofTrust 186
MarkAlfano
9. ThePsychologyofVirtueEducation 207
NafsikaAthanassoulis
10. MasteringWisdom 229
AlbertoMasala
Index 255
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List of Contributors
MARK ALFANO is Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology.
SincecompletinghisdoctorateatCityUniversityofNewYorkin2011,
he has been Distinguished Guest Fellow at Notre Dame Institute for
Advanced Study and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Woodrow
Wilson School and Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
He has published numerous articles on the situationist challenge to
virtue ethics, on extending this challenge to virtue epistemology, and
onexperimentalphilosophyofintentionalaction.HisbookCharacteras
MoralFictionwaspublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPressin2013.
ROMANALTSHULERiscurrentlyAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatKutz-
town University, having completed his PhD at SUNY Stony Brook in
2010.Hisresearchinterestscentreonphilosophyofagency,withspecial
interestsinfreewill,moralresponsibility,andmoralpsychology.Healso
worksonseveralfiguresinthehistoryofphilosophy,especiallyKantand
Heidegger, in relation to discussions of agency. He has published on
action and ethics, and is currently working on papers on narrative
identityandconstitutivism,alongwitheditingacollectiononphilosophy
ofaction.
NAFSIKAATHANASSOULISisanindependentresearcherwhohaspreviously
held lectureships at Keele University and the University of Leeds. Her
monograph Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility was published by
Palgrave in 2005. She has published papers on medical ethics and
research ethics in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Value
Inquiry,andCambridgeQuarterlyofHealthcareEthics.Herresponseto
the situationist critique of virtue ethics is one of the most cited in this
literature.Sheiscurrentlyworkingonpapersonvirtueethicsandformal
education.
KATHARINA BAUER is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of
Dortmund and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ruhr-Universität
Bochum. Her areas of specialization are theories of practical necessity,
theories of personal identity and character, contemporary French
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philosophy (existentialism, phenomenology, and post-structuralism),
andtherelationbetweenphilosophyandliterature.
JULESHOLROYDisVice-Chancellor’sFellowinPhilosophyattheUniver-
sityofSheffield.Herresearchconcernstheintersectionofmoralpsych-
ologyandpoliticalphilosophy.Shehaspublished papersonautonomy,
responsibility, and punishment in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice,
Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical
Papers,andSocialTheoryandPracticeandiscurrentlydirectingamajor
Leverhulme-fundedresearchprojectonresponsibilityforimplicitbias.
JONATHAN JACOBS is Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics,
andProfessorandChairofPhilosophyatJohnJayCollege,CityUniver-
sityofNewYork.Heworksoncriminaljusticeandphilosophyoflaw,as
well as moral psychology and metaethics. He has received grants from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Earhart Foundation,
and the Littauer Foundation. His books include Virtue and Self-
Knowledge(Prentice-Hall,1989),PracticalRealismandMoralPsychology
(GeorgetownUniversityPress,1995),ChoosingCharacter:Responsibility
for Virtue and Vice (Cornell University Press, 2001), and Aristotle’s
Virtues(PeterLang,2004).
DANIELKELLYisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatPurdueUniversity.
HismonographYuck!TheNatureandMoralSignificanceofDisgustwas
publishedbyMITPressin2001.Hehaspublishedpapersonempirically
informed moral psychology in Brain and Behavioural Sciences, Cogni-
tion, Mind and Language, and Journal of Social Philosophy. He has
previously co-authored papers with Dan Fessler, Edouard Machery,
andStephenStich.
ALBERTO MASALA is postdoctoral researcher at the Sciences, Normes,
Décision research centre of the Sorbonne. His doctoral thesis was on
theprospectsfornaturalizingvirtueethics,andhispaper‘Excellence et
spécialisationmorale’wasrecentlypublishedinLamoralehumaineetles
sciences. He is also currently director of a project at the education
research centre Compas that aims to develop tools for training wise
judgement.
CHRISTIANB.MILLERisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatWakeForest
University. He is the author of over thirty articles in metaethics, moral
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psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of religion.
Histwobooksoncharacter,MoralCharacter:AnEmpiricalTheoryand
Character and Moral Psychology, have recently been published by
OUP. He is Director of The Character Project, which is funded by a
$4.2milliongrantfromtheJohnTempletonFoundation.
KATRINAL.SIFFERDisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatElmhurstCol-
lege. Before becoming a philosopher, Katrina earned a Juris Doctorate
andworkedas asenior research analyston criminaljusticeprojectsfor
the National Institute of Justice. She has published many papers on
neuroscience, moral psychology, and legal theory, including in Con-
sciousnessandCognitionandLawandPhilosophy.
JONATHANWEBBERisReaderinPhilosophyatCardiffUniversity.Hehas
published empirically grounded articles on philosophical moral psych-
ology in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, European Journal of
Philosophy,JournalofMoralPhilosophy,Mind,PhilosophicalQuarterly,
and elsewhere. He is also the author of The Existentialism of Jean-Paul
Sartre(Routledge,2009)andRethinkingExistentialism(OUP,forthcom-
ing), which bring insights from phenomenology and existentialism to
debatesinmoralpsychology.
