Resume

• 1999

  Ph.D.

  Philosophy

• 1995

  Palm Beach Day School

  BA

  Philosophy

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  Philosophy

  The Character Gap: How Good Are We?

  The Character Gap: How Good Are We?

  Philosophers and psychologists have been hard at work trying to unlock the mysteries of our characters. Unfortunately

  their answers have been all over the map. According to one position

  every single person has all of the moral virtues

  such as modesty and compassion

  although to varying degrees. Yet according to another position

  no one has any character traits at all since they are simply illusions and do not exist. Hence not one person is honest or compassionate or courageous. And between these extremes

  there are plenty of intermediate views.\n\nChristian B. Miller argues that not one of these leading positions accurately reflects what most of us are like today. He explores the implications of the Mixed Trait framework-a theory of moral character developed in his previous book

  Moral Character: An Empirical Theory. Mixed traits have both morally positive aspects (hence they are not vices) along with morally negative aspects (hence they are not virtues). Miller engages with the other leading positions on the empirical nature of character: situationism

  the CAPS model

  the Big Five model

  and the local trait model. He goes on to apply the Mixed Trait framework to several important topics in ethics

  especially the development of an error theory about judgments of character and the challenge faced by virtue ethics from the widespread lack of virtue.

  Character and Moral Psychology

  Moral Character: An Empirical Theory

  Miller

  Wake Forest University

  Greensboro/Winston-Salem

  North Carolina Area

  www.thecharacterproject.com

  Director

  The Character Project

  Wake Forest University

  Greensboro/Winston-Salem

  North Carolina Area

  www.wfu.edu/~millerc

  A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy

  Wake Forest University

  American Philosophical Association