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another stab at situationism

I think maybe I explained sit­u­a­tion­ism rather poorly back here in skep­ti­cism about moral char­ac­ter. Some things Adam says over at Sophist­pun­dit about The Nature of Char­ac­ter pro­vide a good oppor­tu­nity for me to clear things up for him as well as any­one else I may have unwit­tingly con­fused. So let me address a few …

January 3, 2010 – 7:58 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in ethics, moral character, moral psychology, virtue ethics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (9)

snapshots of moral character

Here is my very late reply to Jim on skep­ti­cism about moral char­ac­ter. The short answer: No, in all my mod­er­ately exten­sive read­ing on this sub­ject, I have not found any “stud­ies that actu­ally involve the obser­va­tion of a person’s behav­ior across a wide range of rel­e­vant cir­cum­stances,” as opposed to stud­ies which deal with …

January 2, 2010 – 8:42 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in ethics, moral character, moral psychology, virtue ethics | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)