Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior

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Following is work that address the sort of issues taken up in Lack of Character. Titles in bold indicate the most detailed or directly relevant discussions. If you notice errors or omissions, please contact John Doris.

Adams, R. M. 2006. A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being For the Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Annas, J. 2003. “Virtue Ethics and Social Psychology.” A Priori 2: 21-59.

Annas, J. 2005. “Comments on John Doris’ Lack of Character.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73: 636-47.

Appiah, A. 2008. Experiments in Ethics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Arpaly, N. 2005. “Comments on Lack of Character by John Doris.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73: 643-7.

Barth, R. Gibbons, C. Guo, S. 2005. “Substance abuse treatment and the recurrence of maltreatment among caregivers with children living at home: A propensity score analysis?” 30 (2):93-104.

Card, R. 2005. “Pure Aretaic Ethics and Character.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 38: 473-484.

Clarke, S. 2002. “Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorizing.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32: 131-150.

Fleming, D. 2006. “The Character of Virtue: Answering the Situationist Challenge to Virtue Ethics.” Ratio 19 (1), 24–42.

Formosa, P. “Moral Responsibility for Banal Evil.” Journal of Social Psychology 37: 501-520.
Frances, B. “Live Skeptical Hypotheses.” Forthcoming in J. Greco (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1-22.

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Fraser, A. “A 6-year Experience with Urine Drug Testing by Family Service Agencies in Nova Scotia, Canada.” Forensic Science International 121: 151-156.

<>Haidt, J. forthcoming. “Social Institutions Answer Six Questions about Moral Psychology.” In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 3. Cambridge: MIT Press.

<>Harman, G. 1999. “Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attribution Error.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99: 315-31.
Harman, G. 2000. “The Nonexistence of Character Traits.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100: 223-226.
Harman, G. 2003. “No Character or Personality.” Business Ethics Quarterly 13: 87-94.
Harman, G. 2006. “Three Trends in Moral and Political Philosophy.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 37.

Harman, G. 2006. “Self-Reflexive Thoughts.” Philosophical Issues 16 (1) 334-345.

Hartman, E. 2006. “Can We Teach Character? An Aristotelian Answer.” Academy of Management Learning & Education 5: 68-81.
Horton, K. 2004. “Aid and Bias.” Inquiry 47: 545-561.
Hurka, T. 2006 “Virtuous Act, Virtuous Dispositions.” Analysis 66: 69–76.
Hutton, E. 2005. “Character, Situationism, and Early Confucian Thought.” Philosophical Studies 127: 37-58.
Knobe, J., Leiter, B. forthcoming. “The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology.” In B. Leiter and N. Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kupperman, J. J. 2001. “The Indispensability of Character.” Philosophy 76: 239-50.
Levy, N. 2006. “Good Character: Too Little, Too Late.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 19: 108-118.
McCoy, M. 2003. “Factors Impacting the Assessment of Maternal Culpability in Cases of Alleged Fetal Abuse.” Journal of Drug Education 33: 275-288.
Merritt, M. 2000. “Virtue Ethics and Situationist Personality Psychology.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 3: 365-383.
Miller, C. 2003. “Social Psychology and Virtue Ethics.” The Journal of Ethics 7: 365-92.
Montmarquet, J. 2003. “Moral Character and Social Science Research.” Philosophy 78: 355-68.
Morris, S. 2004. “Deciphering the Secret Chain: An Evolutionary Perspective on Enlightened Self-Interest.”

Murphy, D. 2004. “Autonomy, Experience, and Therapy.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 11: 303-307.
Murphy, D and Woolfolk, R. “Conceptual Analysis Versus Scientific Understanding: An Assessment of Wakefield’s Folk Psychiatry.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 7: 271-293.

Nelkin, D. 2005. “Freedom, Responsibility, and the Challenge of Situationism.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29:181-206.
Sabini, J. and Silver, M. 2004. “Situationism and Character.” Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books 49: 607-9.
Sabini, J. and Silver, M. 2005. “Lack of Character? Situationism Critiqued.” Ethics 115: 535-62.
Solomon 2003 “On Fate and Fatalism” Philosophy East & West 53: 435-454.
Solomon, R. 2003. “Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business.” Business Ethics Quarterly 13: 43-62.
Solomon, R. 2005. “What’s Character Got to Do with It?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73: 648-55.

Sreenivasan, G. 2002. “Errors about Errors: Virtue Theory and Trait Attribution.” Mind 111: 47-68.
Stohr, K. 2006 “Contemporary Virtue Ethics.” Philosophy Compass 1: 22–27.
Swanton, C. 2003. Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vargas “Building a Better Beast.” 1-40.
Vargas, M. 2005. “The Trouble with Tracing.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29: 269-291.
Vranas, P. B. M. 2005 “The Indeterminacy Paradox: Character Evaluations and Human Psychology.” Nous 39: 1–42.

Vranas, P. B. M., 2004. “Review of Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior.” The Philosophical Review 113: 284.

Weaver, G. “Virtue in Organizations: Moral Identity as a Foundation for Moral Agency.” Organization Studies 27: 341-368.

Webber, J. 2006a. “Character, Consistency, and Classification.” Mind 115.

Webber, J. 2006b. “Sartre’s Theory of Character.” European Journal of Philosophy 14: 94-116.

Webber, J. 2006c. “Virtue, Character and Situation.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 3.

Webber, J. 2007a. “Character, Common-sense, and Expertise.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Webber, J. 2007b. “Character, Global and Local.” Utilitas.

Whetstone, T. 2005. “A Framework for Organizational Virtue: The Interrelationship of Mission, Culture and Leadership.” Business Ethics: A European Review 14: 367-378.

Wielenberg, E. 2006. “Saving Character.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9: 461-491.

Wong, D. 2004. “Relational and Autonomous Selves.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31: 419-432.

Some further work by Doris, with some attempt to respond to criticism:
Doris, J. M. 2005. “Precís” and “Replies: Evidence and Sensibility.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73:632-5, 656-77.
Doris, J. M. 2007. “Out of Character: On the Psychology of Excuses in the Criminal Law.” In H. La Follette (ed.), Ethics in Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.