The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness [Paperback]

Since ancient times, character, virtue, and happiness have been central to thinking about how to live well. Yet until recently, philosophers have thought about these topics in an empirical vacuum. Taking up the general challenge of situationism  that philosophers should pay attention to empirical psychology  this interdisciplinary volume presents new essays from empirically informed perspectives by philosophers and psychologists on western as well as eastern conceptions of character, virtue, and happiness, and related issues such as personality, emotion and cognition, attitudes and automaticity. Researchers at the top of their fields offer exciting work that expands the horizons of empirically informed research on topics central to virtue ethics.

Introduction Nancy E. Snow and Franco V. Trivigno  Part I: Perspectives on the Moral Psychology of Character and Virtue  1. Following Kurt Lewin Beyond the Situation and the Person C. Daniel Batson  2. The Real Challenge to Virtue Ethics from Psychology Christian Miller  3. The Geography of Thought Revisited: Reflections on Situationism and the Psychology of Asians Nancy E. Snow  4. Situational Virtues: How Contexts Affect Peoples Ethics Kaiping Peng, Xiaowei Lv, and Feng Yu  5. A Morality of Doing, Not Having Darcia Narvaez and Daniel Lapsley  6. Disgust and Moral Knowledge Erik Wielenberg  7. Attitudes and Virtuous Automaticity Clea Rees and Jonathan Webber  8. Virtue and Imposition in Classical Confucianism Hagop Sarkissian  9. Seeing Confucian Active Moral Perception in Light of Contemporary Psychology Stephen Angle  Part II: Perspectives on Happiness, Situations, and Virtue  10. Well-Being and Sitl#