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Self-Control: The Linking of Self, Motivation, and Virtue
(2015-03-14)
The key issue our team will be exploring is the role played by self-control in the development and expression of virtue. In particular, we are interested in the self-regulating function of people’s self-narratives ...
Who Am I? Investigating the Moral Self
(2015-03-14)
Emerging research suggests a crucial link between the self and morality; that is, we define our-selves less by our personality, memory, or agency than by our moral values. Although this work indicates an association between ...
The Neuroscience of Habituated Motivation
(2015-03-14)
This project brings together neo-Aristotelian theory of motivational habituation and neuro-cognitive models of skill acquisition, in order to explain why it is so difficult to cultivate extended and sophisticated motivational ...
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 ...
Self and Desire as Seeds of Virtue
(2015-03-14)
According to Buddhist philosophies, recognizing the self as impermanent, changing, and interdependent is at the root of virtue. With this realization, desires shift away from inward self-cherishing and toward outward ...
Selfless Agents
(2015-03-14)
This project will address the fundamental question in the background of the Self, Motivation and Virtue Project: How is the Self to be conceived? We challenge the premise of western philosophy that a diachronically unified ...