Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness

Taking up the general challenge of situationism - that philosophers should pay attention to empirical psychology - this interdisciplinary volume presents new essays from empirically informed perspectives by philosophers and psychologists on western as well as eastern conceptions of character, virtue, and happiness, and related issues such as personality, emotion and cognition, attitudes and automaticity.

List of contents

Part I: Persons, Situations, and Virtue
1. The Real Challenge to Virtue Ethics from Psychology
Christian Miller
2. Reasoning about Wrong Reasons, No Reasons, and Reasons of Virtue
Neera K. Badhwar
3. Following Kurt Lewin Beyond the Situation -- and the Person
C. Daniel Batson
Part II: The Moral Psychology of Virtue
4. Automaticity in Virtuous Action
Clea F. Rees and Jonathan Webber
5. Disgust, Moral Knowledge, and Virtue
Erik J. Wielenberg
6. Empathic Concern and the Pursuit of Virtue
Franco V. Trivigno
7. The Having and Doing of Moral Personality
Daniel Lapsley and Darcia Narvaez
Part III: Asian Philosophy and Psychology on Virtue and Happiness
8. Seeing Confucian 'Active Moral Perception' in Light of Contemporary Psychology
Stephen C. Angle
9. Is Self-Regulation a Burden or a Virtue? A Comparative Perspective
Hagop Sarkissian
10. The Geography of Thought Revisited: Reflections on Situationism and the Psychology of Asians
Nancy E. Snow
11. The Psychology of Virtue and Happiness in Western and Asian Thought
Samuel M. Y. Ho, Wenjie Duan, and Sandy C. M. Tang
Part IV: Happiness
12. Adventures in Assisted Living: Well-Being and Situationist Psychology
Daniel M. Haybron
13. Aristotelian Well-Being for the Modern World: Taking the Capabilities Approach to the Next Level of Specificity
Howard J. Curzer
14. A Virtuous Cycle: The Relationship Between Happiness and Virtue
Pelin Kesebir and Ed Diener

About the author

Nancy E. Snow is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Marquette University, USA
Franco V. Trivigno is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway

Product details

• Authors: Nancy E. (University of Kansas Snow
• Assisted by: Nancy E. Snow (Editor), Snow Nancy E. (Editor), Franco V. Trivigno (Editor), Trivigno Franco V. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2014
• EAN: 9780415656146
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65614-6
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Asia, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Ethics & moral philosophy, Regional Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Regional / International studies, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy