Christian B. Miller, “The Character Gap: How Good Are We?” (Oxford UP, 2018)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · May 1, 2018 · 58m

My guest today is Christian Miller. Christian is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is a moral philosopher specializing on character, with special interest in the empirical study of the virtues and vices. He currently directs The Beacon Project, which studies morally exemplars; and he has recently completed a 5-year research project called The Character Project. His latest book is titled The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (Oxford University Press, 2017) Moral thinking and evaluation often occur at the level of the person. We find ourselves asking not simply…