Christian B. Miller

I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University.

My work is primarily in contemporary meta-ethics, moral psychology, theory of action, normative theory, and philosophy of religion. Recently I have become especially interested in issues at the intersection of ethics and social psychology. Some of this research was featured in an interview in the online version of the Wake Forest Magazine which is available here.

I am currently director of a three year, $3.67 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation on the existence and nature of character. More details can be found at the website for The Character Project. We have also launched a website devoted to Resources for the Study of Character. In the summer of 2011 we received a supplemental grant for this program in the amount of $508,403.

I was very honored to be awarded both the 2009 Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the 2009 Wake Forest University Award for Excellence in Research. This is the first time that a faculty member has ever won both prizes in the same year. More details are available here.

During the 2010-2011 academic year, I was on a Wake Forest Reynolds Leave to work on my first book, The Philosophy and Psychology of Moral Character. The book has now been drafted. I also became the President of the North Carolina Philosophical Society.

In January, 2011, I co-directed the Foundations of Ethics Seminar for Chinese Scholars, along with Mark Murphy (Georgetown). This is part of the Values and Virtues in Contemporary China Program, and was held in Athens, Greece with a follow-up conference in Wuhan, China in October, 2011. More details can be found here. An article about the experience can be found here.

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