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Moral Psychology Moral Psychology Volume 5: Virtue and Character edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Christian B. Miller A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any elec- tronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moral psychology / edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. v. cm. “A Bradford Book.” Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: v. 1. The evolution of morality : adaptations and innateness -- v. 2. The cognitive science of morality : intuition and diversity -- v. 3. The neuroscience of morality : emotion, disease, and development. -- v. 4. Free will and moral responsibility ISBN 978-0-262-19561-4 (vol. 1 : hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262-69354- 7 (vol. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262-19569-0 (vol. 2 : hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262-69357-8 (vol. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262- 19564-5 (vol. 3 : hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262-69355-4 (vol. 3 : pbk. : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-262-02668-0 (vol. 4 : hardcover : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-262-52547-3 (vol. 4 : pbk : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262-03557-6 (vol. 5 : hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-262-53318-8 (vol. 5 : pbk : alk. paper) 1. Ethics. 2. Psychology and philosophy. 3. Neurosciences. I. Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955- BJ45.M66 2007 170--dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Walter is happy to dedicate this volume to all of his golfing buddies because they have built his character and overlooked his vices. Christian would like to dedicate this volume to the Wake Forest University philosophy department, which has been such a joy to be a part of for the past twelve years. Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Christian B. Miller and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 1 Getting Cynical about Character: A Social-Psychological Perspective 11 C. Daniel Batson 1.1 Getting Less Cynical about Virtue 45 Joshua May 1.2 In Defense of (a Little) Moral Hypocrisy 53 Karl Aquino 1.3 Help Thou My Unbelief: A Reply to May and Aquino 63 C. Daniel Batson 2 Does Whole Trait Theory Work for the Virtues? 75 Eranda Jayawickreme and William Fleeson 2.1 Virtue Traits and Personality Traits 105 Lorraine L. Besser 2.2 Personality Is Not Destiny, but It’s Still Real 113 Simine Vazire 2.3 Whole Trait Theory Can Explain Virtues 121 Eranda Jayawickreme and William Fleeson viii Contents 3 Character Education and the Rearguard of Situationism 131 Gopal Sreenivasan 3.1 Virtue, the Right, and the Good: Comment on Sreenivasan 163 Thomas Hurka 3.2 Situationism and the Pyrrhic Defense of Character Education: Commentary on Sreenivasan 171 Daniel Lapsley 3.3 Battlefields and Bogeymen: A Reply to Hurka and Lapsley 185 Gopal Sreenivasan 4 Of Marshmallows and Moderation 197 Neil Levy 4.1 Willpower as “Won’t”-power and the Challenges of Measuring Trait Self-Control 215 E. J. Masicampo 4.2 Self-Control and Character 225 Chandra Sripada 4.3 Trading in the Trait? Response to Masicampo and Sripada 231 Neil Levy 5 Honesty 237 Christian B. Miller 5.1 Honesty’s Threshold 275 Jason Baehr 5.2 The Gift of Dishonesty 287 Bella M. DePaulo 5.3 Honesty Revisited: More Conceptual and Empirical Reflections 295 Christian B. Miller 6 The Twin Dimensions of the Virtue of Humility: Low Self-Focus and High Other-Focus 309 Thomas Nadelhoffer and Jennifer Cole Wright
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