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The Dignity of Persons and the Value of Uniqueness
(2016-11)Presidential Address delivered at the one hundred thirteenth Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, IL, on March 4, 2016. -
Ethical Parenting
(2017-10)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 10, October 2017. -
Eudaimonic Growth: How Virtues and Motives Shape the Narrative Self and Its Development within a Social Ecology
(2015-03-14)This transdisciplinary study will examine how the narration of self, motivation, and eudaimonic virtues like wisdom and compassion develop within a social ecology of family master narratives and social institutions that ... -
Eudaimonic Growth: How Virtues and Motives Shape the Narrative Self and Its Development within a Social Ecology
(2016-05)This project investigates how virtues shape people’s life stories within a social ecology of families, social institutions, and cultural master narratives. Life stories allow us to study how virtues serve as motives for ... -
Existential Feelings in Virtue: A Philosophical-Psychological Investigation
(2015-03-14)Discourses on the self and virtue have minimized the importance of emotion in favor of cognitive-developmental perspectives. Yet recent theory and research in philosophy (Kristjánsson, 2010; Slaby & Stephan, 2008) and ... -
From 'ordinary' virtue to Aristotelian virtue
(2016-01)In two earlier papers, I began to explore how “ordinary people” acquire virtue. By “ordinary people,” I mean people, not specifically or directly concerned with becoming virtuous, who have goals or aims the pursuit of ... -
The Gestation of Virtue: An Examination of How Experiences in the Womb May Build the Moral Self
(2015-03-14)This project represents an empirical test of the Co-Investigator’s “Life is a Wonder” model of pregnancy (Barragan Sanchez, 2007). The Life is a Wonder model posits that, if an expecting mother construes her coming baby ... -
Getting Back on Track to Being Human
(2017-05-02)Cooperation and compassion are forms of intelligence. Their lack is an indication of ongoing stress or toxic stress during development that undermined the usual growth of compassion capacities. Though it is hard to face ... -
Giving from the Heart: The Role of the Heart and the Brain in Virtuous Motivation and Integrity
(2016-05-07)To what extent and in what way is the self unified? How does its degree of unification lead to or stymie virtuous motivation and action? This project investigates embodied fluency in value-directed-actions and a drive ... -
How to Train a Better Scientist: Intellectual Virtues, Epistemic Reasoning and Science Education
(2017-07)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 09, July 2017. -
Humility as Opening to Others: Exemplar-Mediated Reconfigurations of the Self
(2016-05-06)The talk will engage distinctive contributions of the virtue of humility to the communal life of L’Arche communities, and of these communities’ practices to our understanding of humility. Long-term, dedicated Assistants ... -
Integrity and its Puzzles
(2017-05)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 08, May 2017. -
Investigating Implicit Aspects of Virtue: Understanding Humility Among Moral Exemplars
(2015-03-13)Our research project will investigate the virtue of humility among real world humanitarian exemplars, such as holocaust rescuers and hospice workers. We will use computer technology to analyze interviews with these types ... -
ISHF e-Newsletter 01 (January 2016)
(2016-01)This is a quarterly electronic publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing. It features a brief overview of past events and activities of the Institute and its partner institutions, and a look ahead to ... -
"Jihad": What's Happening with this Virtue?
(2015-03-13)"Jihad" for Muslim is a virtue, it’s learned from generation to generation. But nowadays we can see that this virtue has had different interpretations in society, from peaceful to terrorism. This research will be conducted ... -
The Joys and Sorrows of a Philosophical Life
(2016-11)John Dewey lecture delivered at the ninetieth Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco on April 1, 2016. -
Moral Exemplarism
(2016-07)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 04, January 2016. -
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More in the Development of the Moral Self?
(2015-03-14)‘Self’ has long been a contested term within psychology and religion; however, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism all acknowledge that individuals struggle to embody narratives of a virtuous life—a life motivated to do good, ... -
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More?
(2016-05-06)Our international project involves interviews with older and younger adults of 4 faith conditions (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Agnostic) in 2 countries, Canada and South Korea. Study 1 includes participants from two ...