Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Baselines for Virtue Darcia Narvaez
Chapter 2: Moral Self-Identity and the Social-Cognitive Theory of Virtue Daniel Lapsley
Chapter 3: From a Baby Smiling: Reflections on Virtues in Development Robert N. Emde
Chapter 4: The Development of Virtuous Character: Automatic and Reflective Dispositions Ross A. Thompson and Abby S. Lavine
Chapter 5: Developmental Virtue Ethics Christine Swanton
Chapter 6: How Habits Make Us Virtuous Nancy E. Snow
Chapter 7: Virtue Cultivation in Light of Situationism Christian Miller
Chapter 8: Becoming Good: Narrow Dispositions and the Stability of Virtue Rachana Kamtekar
Chapter 9: The Role of Motivation and Wisdom in Virtue as Skill Matt Stichter
Chapter 10: Learning Virtue Rules: The Issue of Thick Concepts Julia Annas
Chapter 11: Guilt and Shame in the Development of Virtue Jennifer A. Herdt
Chapter 12: Benevolence in a Justice-Based World: The Power of Sentiments (and Reasoning) in Predicting Prosocial Behaviors Gustavo Carlo
Chapter 13: Norms of Justice in Development Mark LeBar

About the Author

Julia Annas is Regents Professor in Philosophy at the University of Arizona, having also taught at Oxford. She was the founding editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She brings evolutionary theory, neurobiology and positive psychology to considerations of wellbeing, morality and wisdom across the lifespan, including early life, childhood and adulthood and in multiple contexts (parenting, schooling).

Nancy E. Snow is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. With Darcia Narvaez, she is the co-director of the three-year project, "The Self, Motivation, and Virtue," funded by $2.6 million from the Templeton Religion Trust. She is the author of over thirty papers and one monograph, and has edited or co-edited five volumes.

Reviews

"Sixty years ago, Elizabeth Anscombe called for a more advanced moral psychology to support virtue ethics. Developing the Virtues answers that call with a thoughtful, engaging collection of essays, representing different perspectives on developing virtue, with high integrity to the disciplines they represent. I recommend this book to anyone working in the field of virtue ethics, and to anyone interested in virtue for its own sake." -- Christopher
Fowles, Journal of Moral Philosophy
"This volume does just what the title says it will do. It brings together perspectives on virtue theory from psychology, theology, and philosophy. A number of the authors appear not only to have their work informed by other disciplines, but also appear to occupy more than one perspective in their work. This book is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and engaging discussion of the development of virtues...this volume is indispensible for anyone studying
philosophically informed empirical psychology and empirically informed philosophy and theology." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Developing the Virtues is a nice example of the benefits of cross-disciplinary dialogue. The essays here do real work. Interestingly, they are surprisingly readable. Perhaps this shouldn't be so surprising given that they were first presented as talks to an audience (even though an academic one) and that the audience was an interdisciplinary mix of academics. Usually collections from academic conferences are too esoteric for a general reading
audience. But I think intelligent general readers interested in what academic have to say about virtue development might find this volume interesting and useful." --Metapsychology Online Reviews