Christian B. Miller

Greetings! I am the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. My work is primarily in contemporary meta-ethics, moral psychology, theory of action, normative theory, and philosophy of religion.

I have completed a five year, $5.6 million project on the existence and nature of character called The Character Project, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Please see our additional websites on Academic Resources for the Study of Character and Popular Resources on Character. Thanks to a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust, I am currently the philosophy director of The Beacon Project, which examines morally exceptional people from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and psychology.

My first trade book is forthcoming in December with Oxford University Press - The Character Gap: How Good Are We? I have also published two academic books with Oxford - Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), and Character and Moral Psychology (2014). The edited volume from the Character Project, Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology, is now out. I have edited three other volumes, Essays in Philosophy of Religion, The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics, and (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character. Integrity, Honesty, and Truth-Seeking, with Ryan West, is in progress for Oxford.

I am very honored to have been awarded the A. C. Reid Chair in Philosophy, the 2014 Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Student Engagement, the 2009 Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2009 Wake Forest University Award for Excellence in Research. More details are available here.

 

Created on March 10, 2001