How Good Are We, Really? with Christian Miller

Today it’s great to have Christian Miller on the podcast. Dr. Miller is A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and Director of the Character Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 75 papers as well as the author of Moral Character: An Empirical Theory, Character and Moral Psychology, and most recently, The Character Gap: How Good Are We?

In this episode we discuss:

The main aims of the Character Project
Christian’s attempt to integrate positive psychology research with philosophy
Replication of the famous Milgram experiment
Fairness norms among infants
Can we draw boundaries around the notion of “moral character”?
What factors predict whether people help?
How we’re a mixed bag between the poles of compassion and callousness
What Christian’s research has discovered about people’s tendency toward helping, hurting, lying and cheating
Can we make humans better?
How SBK and Aristotle are on the same page

About the guest

Christian Miller

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Christian B. Miller is an American philosopher and the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His work focuses on moral character and virtue, and he is the author of books including The Character Gap: How Good Are We? and Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue.

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