A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University
Biography
Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project (www.moralbeacons.org), funded by a $3.9 million grant from Templeton Religion Trust, and is Past Director of the Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com), funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation.
Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project (www.moralbeacons.org), funded by a $3.9 million grant from Templeton Religion Trust, and is Past Director of the Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com), funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 80 academic papers as well as three books with Oxford University Press,Moral Character: An Empirical Theory(2013), Character and Moral Psychology(2014), and The Character Gap: How Good Are We?(2017). His writings have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon,and Christianity Today. Miller is the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion(OUP), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology(OUP), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character(MIT Press), Integrity, Honesty, and Truth-Seeking(OUP), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics(Continuum Press).
On July 30th, Dr. Christian Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, discussed key themes from the book The Character Gap: How Good Are We? See slides from the presentation here.
Miller offered these comments during a July 30, 2018, presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
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