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The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 01
(2015-03)
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 ...
Virtue Intelligence
(2014-01)
The provocative title of this conference is, “Can Virtue Be Measured?” My answer to this question is, “Yes, it can,” and I hasten to add, “It should be.” I began thinking about whether and how to measure virtue when Jennifer ...
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 ...
A Personal-Projects Approach to Well-Being and Virtue: Philosophical and Psychological Considerations
(2016-05-07)
Philosophical theories of well-being are diverse and often in disagreement, but we believe progress can be made by starting from an assertion that we think all such theories can agree on—namely, that success in at least ...
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 05
(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 ...
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 ...