Integrity, Honesty, and Truth Seeking

Christian B. Miller is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He was the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project and the Director of the Character Project. He is the author of over 80 academic papers as well as three books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), and The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017). His writings have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, and Christianity Today. Miller is the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP, 2006), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (OUP, 2015), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press, 2017), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press, 2011). Ryan West is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grove City College. His research areas include ethics,philosophical psychology, and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in such journals as Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Faith and Philosophy, and Journal of Religious Ethics.

• Series Editor's ForewordIntroduction, Christian B. Miller and Ryan WestPart One: IntegrityChapter 1: To Thine Own Self Be True? Integrity and Concern for Truth, Greg ScherkoskeChapter 2: The Legal Enforcement of Integrity, Stuart P. GreenChapter 3: Enacting Integrity, Jennifer A. HerdtPart Two: HonestyChapter 4: The Virtue of Honesty: A Conceptual Exploration, Robert C. Roberts and Ryan WestChapter 5: Honesty as Ethical Communicative Practice: A Framework for Analysis, Janie Harden FritzChapter 6: Margarita Leib and Shaul Shalvi, Justifications as a Threat to Honesty: A Behavioral Ethics ApproachChapter 7: Becoming Honest: Why We Lie and What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter and Jason BaehrPart Three: Truth SeekingChapter 8: Intellectual Temperance: Lessons in Truth Seeking from Augustine and Aquinas, W. Jay WoodChapter 9: Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians, Martin JayChapter 10: Developing Truth Seekers, Philip E. Dow

The ten essays in the present collection focus on different aspects of integrity, honesty, and truth seeking (a section is devoted to each), all of which have become important in the recent political climate. Most of the contributors are philosophers, but other disciplines are represented, including economics, theology, communication studies, and history. Some contributors focus on theory, whereas others address more practical concerns...This is an interesting and timely collection, and the essays are thoughtful and well written. All the papers were written specially for this volume, and taken together, they offer a pioneering discussion of a somewhat neglected set of virtues...Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.