Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness

Nancy E. Snow is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Marquette University, USAFranco V. Trivigno is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway

• Introduction Nancy E. Snow and Franco V. Trivigno Part I: Perspectives on the Moral Psychology of Character and Virtue 1. Following Kurt Lewin Beyond the Situation and the Person C. Daniel Batson 2. The Real Challenge to Virtue Ethics from Psychology Christian Miller 3. The Geography of Thought Revisited: Reflections on Situationism and the Psychology of Asians Nancy E. Snow 4. Situational Virtues: How Contexts Affect People’s Ethics Kaiping Peng, Xiaowei Lv, and Feng Yu 5. A Morality of Doing, Not Having Darcia Narvaez and Daniel Lapsley 6. Disgust and Moral Knowledge Erik Wielenberg 7. Attitudes and Virtuous Automaticity Clea Rees and Jonathan Webber 8. Virtue and Imposition in Classical Confucianism Hagop Sarkissian 9. Seeing Confucian "Active Moral Perception" in Light of Contemporary Psychology Stephen Angle Part II: Perspectives on Happiness, Situations, and Virtue 10. Well-Being and Situationist Psychology Daniel Haybron 11. A Virtuous Cycle: Virtues and Happiness Ed Diener and Pelin Kesebir 12. Virtue and Happiness in Chinese Culture: The Psychological Perspective Samuel Ho 13. Aristotelian Well-Being for the Modern World: Taking the Capabilities Approach to the Next Level of Specificity Howard Curzer 14. Virtue Ethics and Human Nature Neera Badhwar 15. The Role of Empathy in Eudaimonia, Franco V. Trivigno Conclusion Nancy E. Snow and Franco V. Trivigno

"Finely integrating the findings of moral philosophy and psychology, this book contains a plethora of rich insights into eudaemonistic concepts of happiness. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above."--S. A. Mason, CHOICE