Christian Miller
@CharacterGap
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A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy @WakeForest. Author: The Character Gap / Moral Psychology / Honesty. Contributor @Forbes. Recent Director, Honesty Project
Winston-Salem, NC
Joined January 2018
Very excited to share that my next book will be coming out with Oxford University Press! The title is: The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World and it is my second book written for a popular audience (following The Character
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just a reminder that euthanasia is the 5th leading cause of death in Canada
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Infidelity Rates 2024 meta analysis of 305 studies (N = 508,241, 47 countries) Men report more infidelity than women across nearly every type measured. In the sexual and electronic/online infidelity categories men were about twice as likely as women. https://t.co/A3BI6ZCFvA
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
In this systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers' operationalizations of romantic infidelity and the techniques that they employed to measure it were surveyed along with the demographic...
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Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.
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Ethics friends - someone asked me about this and nothing came to mind right away. Any suggestions? "Do you know of any good accounts of the ethics of anonymous letters? Or anonymous accounts?"
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"When people would talk that way, it was understood that they were talking about things like moral truthfulness," said Miller, who teaches philosophy at Wake Forest. Grateful to be included in this NPR story on "If we're being truthful, people are saying 'honestly' all the
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Today @XScholarsReview blog, you can catch an excerpt from my new @ZonderAcademic book, Christians Reading Classics!
christianscholars.com
The following excerpt from Nadya Williams, Christians Reading Classics, is published with permission from Zondervan Academic. *** Sometime in the mid-fourth century BC, a young man, Ariston, was...
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Ethics friends - someone asked me about this and nothing came to mind right away. Any suggestions? "Do you know of any good accounts of the ethics of anonymous letters? Or anonymous accounts?"
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The honest truth about 'honestly' : NPR https://t.co/CDNGMYVZBL
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The popularity of the word honestly online and in conversation has soared in recent years. TBH, we'd like to know what's going on.
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"When people would talk that way, it was understood that they were talking about things like moral truthfulness," said Miller, who teaches philosophy at Wake Forest. Grateful to be included in this NPR story on "If we're being truthful, people are saying 'honestly' all the
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New Issue of Religious Studies now available 📚 https://t.co/n7acQa0Pyf
#ReligiousStudies #Philosophy @CUPRelStudies
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I wrote about the reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test and described how a focus on physical training can shape the character of a nation in good ways (and bad ways). https://t.co/pSpz4V34W2
psychologytoday.com
Physical education can be used to develop good habits of thinking, feeling, and acting. However, it is not always (or even usually) the case that we practice the right things.
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Here's the preface of Physics and Free Will. It begins this way: “I will not discuss libertarianism because, well, it’s incompatible with what we know about nature” (Hossenfelder 2022, 128). This book refutes that claim. https://t.co/8u4eP5wNIx
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Preface of Physics and Free Will: The Science of Libertarian Freedom (Routledge)
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Henry Darby, principal of North Charleston High School in South Carolina, quietly took on overnight shifts at Walmart, stocking shelves several nights a week to help students facing homelessness, hunger & other crises. Instead of seeking donations or attention, he donated every
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I think it’s safe to say, Jake Dickert should be the ACC Coach of the year. Amazing start for this new era of @WakeFB
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New episode: Ibn Sīnā with Jon McGinnis. In this episode, we talk with Jon McGinnis about Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and his views about divine and human agency.
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Philosophy friends - help please: A former student is interested in continuing in philosophy at the graduate level, but can only do it online. Recommendations for fully remote MA or PhD programs (other than University of Birmingham which I will recommend). Thanks so much!
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