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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Absolutely glorious.
The New York Times profiled Peter-Ayers Tarantino’s Manhattan apartment, which is teeming with books (over 4,500), packed into a 1,100-square-foot apartment; nothing short of paradise to many bibliophiles. Photo Credit: Annie Schlechter
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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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Nobel peace prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina) on Russian war crimes against civilians. Worth reading. “I watched the video where a Russian drone attacked a man, a woman, and their dog in the Kharkiv region. The Russians saw that they were civilians. The people
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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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This is not an understatement. One of the largest upsets in College Basketball History is Final: D2 Hawaii-Pacific, a University in a former strip mall, and plays there home games at a former Franciscan Adult Day Center Facility just beat Mountain West member Boise State!
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Alert! Alert! The deadline for submission of abstract to our conference is now less than one month away! Deadline for submission is December 1. See the call for papers (pg. 2 in next post) and make your plans to submit ASAP.
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I was thrilled and honored to talk with @iamjohnmackey, founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, creator of https://t.co/yvU53pbF84, and philosophy fan (link below). The episode is a gem. We talk about why philosophy helps people think, the difference between an entrepreneur and a
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The Lord of the Rings has sold more than 150 million copies and shaped some of the most influential thinkers in the world, including Elon Musk. Yet the trilogy only came into existence because one mom, Mabel Tolkien, decided to homeschool her son. She cultivated in her son a
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