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    The story of my life : virtue, character and narrative
    Dissertation, University of Kent. 2011.
    The primary aim of this research is to develop a new philosophical analysis of the concept of character that reflects the complexity of people and meets the demands of moral explanation. It places the agent's particular perspective and the wider context at the centre of moral judgement. The reason for undertaking this project is to establish an account of morality that is not in conflict with discoveries in empirical psychology. It responds to the challenge that the situation usually has the exp…Read more
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    The Evaluative Integration of Local Character Traits
    Journal of Value Inquiry 46 (1): 25-37. 2012.
    This paper assumes that the argument for the existence of localized character traits is correct and explores whether a virtue ethical theory can be grounded in localized traits. The central claim is that the localized traits can be evaluatively integrated under thick ethical concepts. The attempt to ground a type of virtue ethics in localized character traits in terms of thick concepts is new. Philosophers who have previously attempted to take seriously the experimental evidence have tended to a…Read more
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    Narrative Virtues
    Theoretical and Applied Ethics 2 (1): 67-82. 2013.
    It is commonly assumed that character traits, or virtues and vices, are dispositions of persons that cause behavior. This paper rejects this view that character traits, or virtues and vices, are dispositions. Instead, it argues that character traits are constituted by narratives. This important alternative to the dispositional view combines a narrative view of character traits with the power to cause behavior. This view improves upon the summary view of character traits found in psychology liter…Read more