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Teaching Virtue
(2018)
Can virtue be taught? The question is a controversial one, harking back to Confucianism and the Platonic dialogues. We assume that virtue can be taught in the sense that teachers can influence character development in ...
The Beacon Project: Jump-Starting a Field of the Morally Exceptional
(2015-10)
This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project's e-Newsletter 03 (October 2015).
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 04
(2016-01)
This is the quarterly electronic publication of the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project. It features a lead article, autobiographical sketches of SMV Project research team members, publication announcements, and updates about ...
Can the love of learning be taught?
(2004)
This paper is an expanded version of a talk given at a Generic Skills Workshop at the University of Wollongong, and was intended for academic staff from any discipline and general staff with an interest in teaching. The ...
Personal Projects and the Development of Virtue: How Characteristic Adaptations Enact and Encourage Virtue
(2015-03-13)
How does the development of virtue play out in the context of personal projects—key elements of identity in which progress is crucial for well-being—such as those related to relationships, vocation, and self-improvement? ...
The Co-Construction of Virtue: Epigenetics, Development, and Culture
(2014)
Chapter from the book "Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology." Ed. Nancy E. Snow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
2016 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Conference Highlights
(2016-05)
This video features highlights from the 2016 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Conference, held on May 5-7, 2016 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. This event was made possible by funding from the ...
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 ...
Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-Integrated Traits
(2015-03-13)
Contemporary empirical research on virtues has been promising, but limited in depth and value by investigators’ reliance on global self-report questionnaires obtained at a single time-point. These questionnaires require ...
Moral Exemplarism
(2016-07)
This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 04, January 2016.