Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality - Hardcover

by John M. Doris (Author)

John M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology since their rise to prominence in the 1990's. His work has helped foster a methodological reorientation in the field, and has had a transformative effect on the way philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This volume collects a selection of Doris' work spanning 20 years, focusing on the ways in which human personality orders (and fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour. It also presents two new chapters, which together form an in-depth assessment of recent developments in the moral psychology of character, as well as a closing commentary outlining methodological recommendations for those aspiring to do empirically responsible moral psychology. Together, these works present a distinctive vision of moral psychology which will engage both philosophers and psychologists.

Author Biography

John M. Doris, Cornell University

John M. Doris is Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at Cornell University. His many contributions to the field of moral psychology have appeared in leading philosophical and scientific journals, such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Cognition, Scientific American, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has been awarded fellowships from Michigan's Institute for the Humanities; Princeton's University Center for Human Values; the National Humanities Center; the American Council of Learned Societies; Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002) and Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford, 2015), and is co-editor of The Moral Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010) and The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (Oxford, forthcoming).