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195Morality is Real, Objective, and SupernaturalAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences 74-82. 2016.This paper is part of a six paper exchange with Michael Shermer. Section one explains how “God” is meant to be understood. Section two then introduces the position that morality depends in some way upon God. Section three turns to some of the leading arguments for this view. Finally, we will conclude with the most powerful challenge to this approach, namely what has come to be called the Euthyphro Dilemma.
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61Do People have the Virtues or Vices? Some Results from PsychologyIn Bradshaw David (ed.), Ethics and the Challenge of Secularism: Russian and Western Perspectives, Council For Research in Values and Philosophy. pp. 63-88. 2013.In section one of this paper, I review some of the leading research on cheating behavior, and in section two I do the same for cheating motivation. Section three then outlines several requirements for honesty and dishonesty, and I explain why, in light of the current psychological evidence, these requirements do not seem to be met. Finally in section four I step back and consider an important implication if my conclusions are correct.
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208Moral Virtues, Epistemic Virtues, and the Big FiveIn Owen Flanagan & Abrol Fairweather (eds.), Naturalizing Virtue, Cambridge University Press. pp. 92-117. 2014.This paper connects work in psychology on the Big Five Model to the recent debate in philosophy on the empirical adequacy of virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.
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77Honesty, Cheating, and Character in CollegeJournal of College and Character 213-222. 2013.Colleges and universities need to first develop an empirically informed understanding of their students when it comes to their honesty and cheating, so as to be in a better position to develop policies which can try to help them not become more disposed to cheat during their college years. In section one of this paper, I review some of the leading research on cheating behavior, and in section two I do the same for cheating motivation. Section three then draws some implications from this research…Read more
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Selected Works in Contemporary Metaethics and Normative TheoryIn Continuum Companion to Ethics, Continuum. pp. 293-316. 2011.A detailed list of leading articles and books in a variety of areas of normative and meta-ethics. Current to 2010.
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1Are Most of Us Honest People? Or Dishonest? Or Neither?In Artur Szutta & Natasza Szutta (eds.), W poszukiwaniu moralnego charakteru, Academicon Publishing House. pp. 103-145. 2015.In section one of this paper, I review some of the leading research on cheating behavior, and in section two I do the same for cheating motivation. Section three then outlines several requirements for honesty and dishonesty, and I explain why, in light of the current psychological evidence, these requirements do not seem to be met. Finally in section four I step back and present some of the details of my Mixed Trait approach to thinking about the character traits which, I claim, most people actu…Read more
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