From Personality to Virtue

This volume sits at the interface between philosophy and psychology, relating the philosophical concept of character with the psychological idea of personality and responding to recent situationist critiques based on experimental psychology that call into question the traditional notion of character. Character is an ethical concept that has recently become more closely associated with virtue ethics through the work of the Jubilee Centre in Birmingham. The essays range widely over criminal justice, will, agency and decision-making, character and motivation, character and social context, education, implicit bias, the nature of practical wisdom, character as a form of mastery, and institutional reform. The book is mainly aimed at specialists, but can be read with profit by the interested general reader.