I am the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. My main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of religion. Currently I direct the Honesty Project (honestyproject.wfu.edu), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. I was the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project (www.moralbeacons.org), funded by a $3.9 million grant from Templeton Religion Trust, and Director of the Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com), funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. I am the au…
I am the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. My main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of religion. Currently I direct the Honesty Project (honestyproject.wfu.edu), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. I was the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project (www.moralbeacons.org), funded by a $3.9 million grant from Templeton Religion Trust, and Director of the Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com), funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. I am the author of over 100 papers as well as Moral Psychology (Cambridge University Press) and four books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), and Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021). I also edited or co-edited Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (OUP), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press), Integrity, Honesty, and Truth Seeking (OUP), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press).
