Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and PersonalityJohn M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology since their rise to prominence in the 1990's. His work has helped foster a methodological reorientation in the field, and has had a transformative effect on the way philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This volume collects a selection of Doris' work spanning 20 years, focusing on the ways in which human personality orders (and fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour. It also presents two new chapters, which together form an in-depth assessment of recent developments in the moral psychology of character, as well as a closing commentary outlining methodological recommendations for those aspiring to do empirically responsible moral psychology. Together, these works present a distinctive vision of moral psychology which will engage both philosophers and psychologists. |
Contents
Persons Situations and Virtue Ethics | 1 |
Evidence and Sensibility | 23 |
Out of Character On the Psychology of Excusesin the Criminal Law | 41 |
Variantism about Responsibility | 53 |
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib The Moral Psychology of Atrocity | 79 |
Heated Agreement Lack of Character as Being for the Good | 105 |
Doing Without Arguing about Desert | 115 |
No Excuses Performance Mistakes in Morality | 123 |
Précis of Talking to Our Selves Reflection Ignorance and Agency | 139 |
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