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 John M. Doris is Professor in the Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology Program and Philosophy Department, Washington University in St. Louis.  Doris works at the intersection of psychology, cognitive science, and philosophical ethics, and has authored or co-authored papers in this region for such venues as Noûs, Bioethics, Journal of Research in Personality, Philosophical Studies, Cognition, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy.  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, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities (three times), and is a winner of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s Stanton Prize for interdisciplinary research.  Doris authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002) and is, with his colleagues in the Moral Psychology Research Group, editor of The Moral Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010).  He is presently finishing work on a new book, Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Skepticism, and Agency, and beginning work on a collection of his papers, Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Persons and Circumstance, both to appear with Oxford University Press.

Email: jdoris@artsci.wustl.edu