Alberto Masala

Gebundenes Buch

From Personality to Virtue

Essays on the Philosophy of Character

Herausgeber: Webber, Jonathan

Beschreibung

Ten new essays illuminate the idea of character in relation to the findings of psychology and draw out the implications for our moral interactions, education, responsibility, and punishment. They explore the dynamic nature of character, its close integration with social context, and the conceptual affinity of moral philosophy and social psychology.

Autor

Alberto Masala is Post-doctoral researcher at the Sciences, Normes, Décision research centre, Paris-Sorbonne University. He works primarily in empirically informed moral psychology, at the intersection of virtue ethics, social and personality psychology, psychology of expertise, and cognitive learning sciences. He defended his PhD dissertation on empirical approaches to the psychology of virtue and wisdom at the Sorbonne in 2009. Jonathan Webber is Reader in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He works primarily on the ethics of character, informed by empirical social psychology and twentieth-century existentialist philosophy. He has published papers in Analysis, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Mind, Philosophical Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the author of the monograph The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, editor of the collection of essays Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism, and translator of Sartre's book The Imaginary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780198746812
• ISBN-10: 0198746814
• Artikelnr.: 47870855