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    • Motivating Virtuous Selves: The Impact of Gender and Culture 

      Raine, Roxanne; Scheopner, Cynthia; McKinney, Jonathan (2015-03-14)
      The self is defined differently both across and within disciplines and cultures. The traditional Western view of self as an ethical or economic subject is challenged by process philosophers as misplaced and by feminists ...

    • The Neuroscience of Habituated Motivation 

      Masala, Alberto; Andler, Daniel; Denizeau, Jean (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 

      Sullivan, Daniel; Achim, Stephan (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 

      Condon, Paul; Dunne, John; Wilson-Mendenhall, Christine; Hasenkamp, Wendy; Quigley, Karen; Barrett, Lisa (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 

      Chadha, Monima; Brewer, Judson (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 ...

    • The Beacon Project: Jump-starting a Field of the Morally Exceptional 

      Fleeson, William (2015-07)

    • The Bracing, Empty Self versus the Open, Heart-Minded Self 

      Narvaez, Darcia (2015-07)

    • The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 02 

      SMV Project (2015-07)
      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 ...

    • The Beacon Project: Jump-Starting a Field of the Morally Exceptional 

      Fleeson, William (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 03 

      SMV Project (2015-10)
      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 ...

    • The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 04 

      SMV Project (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 ...

    • From 'ordinary' virtue to Aristotelian virtue 

      Snow, Nancy (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 ...

    • Darwin and the Human Future: New Order out of Chaos 

      Loye, David (2016-04)

    • Performing Virtue 

      Zampelli, Michael (2016-04)
      This article was first published as the lead article in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project e-Newsletter 05 (April 2016).

    • The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 05 

      SMV Project (2016-04)
      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 ...

    • 2016 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Conference Highlights 

      The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project (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 ...

    • Eudaimonic Growth: How Virtues and Motives Shape the Narrative Self and Its Development within a Social Ecology 

      Bauer, Jack; DesAutels, Peggy (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 ...

    • Whole trait theory: Does it work for virtue? 

      Fleeson, William; Jayawickreme, Eranda (2016-05)
      Nearly a century after the first blow landed for the situationist argument, Whole Trait Theory was offered as a new model of traits, one that benefited from the situationists’ points. Whole Trait Theory argued that there ...

    • Humility as Opening to Others: Exemplar-Mediated Reconfigurations of the Self 

      Spezio, Michael; Roberts, Robert (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 ...

    • Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More? 

      Ferrari, Michel; Bang, Hyeyoung (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 ...