Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Preface

Part I: Character in Ethics
Introduction to Part I
1. Morality and Aristotelian Character Excellence David Wolfsdorf
2. Aristotle on the Person-Situation Debate: From Natural Character to Moral Virtue Mariska Leunissen
3. Character and Blame in Hume and Beyond Antti Kauppinen
4. Kant on Cultivating a Good and Stable Will Adam Cureton
5. Character and Consequences Ben Bradley
6. How One Becomes What One Is: The Case for a Nietzschean Conception of Character Development Mark Alfano

Part II: Character in Moral Psychology
Introduction to Part II
7. Moral Psychology's Drinking Problem Nomy Arpaly
8. Autonomy, Character, and Self-Understanding Paul Katsafanas
9. Virtue and Cognition Alison Hills
10. Virtue, Desire, and Silencing Reasons Neil Sinhababu
11. Character in Action Alfred Mele
12. Two Senses of "Why": Traits and Reasons in the Explanation of Action Iskra Fileva

Part III: Character in Psychology and X-Phi
Introduction to Part III
13. Promises and Consistency Rachel Cohon and Jason D'Cruz
14. Do Broad Character Traits Exist? Repeated Assessments of Individuals, Not Group Summaries from Classic Experiments, Provide the Relevant Evidence William Fleeson and Michael Furr
15. A New Approach to Character Traits in Light of Psychology Christian Miller
16. Scrupulous Characters and Mental Illness Jesse Summers and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
17. The Psychology of Character, Reputation, and Gossip Ted Hayes, Robert Hogan, and Nick Emler
18. Character and Emotional Phenomenology: Psychotherapeutic and Ethical Implications Robert Stolorow

Part IV: Character and Society
Introduction to Part IV
19. Character and History Daniel Little
20. The "Character" of Profit and Loss: The Entrepreneurial Virtues Michael Munger and Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian
21. Justice and the Intellectual Virtues Kyron Huigens

Part V: Character in Art
Introduction to Part V
22. Fictional Characters as Social Metaphors Noël Carroll
23. Character, Social Psychology, and the Cognitive Value of Literature Robert Stecker
24. Fiction in the Brain Gonzalo Munevar
25. Character and Character Swapping in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte Stephen Davies
26. A Miscast of Character: Actors, Characters, and Character Actors Christy Mag Uidhir

Endnotes
Index

About the Author

Iskra Fileva is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published articles and invited book chapters on issues in moral psychology, free will, and aesthetics, and is also the author of a prize-winning essay on character.

Reviews

"Fileva's collection, although written by philosophers, sees more clearly than any volume I know of that questions of character must be addressed from a wide variety of perspectives and expertise. Because of that it is a vital guide for those of us interested in such matters and a superb model of inclusive philosophical thinking." -- Journal of Moral Philosophy
"In this 26 paper volume, Iskra Fileva collects the perhaps most comprehensive research collection on character seen to date. All articles are written specifically for the volume thereby securing a high level of relevance and cohesion between parts. ... It is a broad, but also unified, work (thanks to Fileva's introductions). The volume is, therefore, essential for scholars interested in character but it is also highly suitable for students. All the papers are
written in a manner that is accessible for non-experts, and both the content and the structure make this volume suited for graduate classes on philosophy or social psychology. ... Fileva has succeeded
in collecting some of the sharpest papers on character and it greatly represents the present state of research."--Emil Hallgren Christiansen, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice