Christian B. Miller is an American

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

specializing in

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

and

philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known Text (literary theo ...

. He is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The R ...

Education and career

Miller earned his

B.A. A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

and his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

. He has taught at Wake Forest University since 2004. Miller has written five books, edited five books, and published over 125 articles, introductions and commentaries. From 2010 to 2015 he was the director of the Character Project, funded by $5.6 million in grants from the

John Templeton Foundation The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a Philanthropy, philanthropic organization founded by John Templeton in 1987. Templeton became wealthy as a Contrarian investing, contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in relig ...

and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The project examined character from the disciplines of philosophy,

theology Theology is the study of religious belief from a Religion, religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an Discipline (academia), academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itse ...

, and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

, and supported the work of dozens of scholars around the world. From 2015 to 2018, he was the philosophy director of the Beacon Project, funded by a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. The project examined the morally exceptional from the disciples of philosophy, theology, and psychology. From 2018 to 2023, he is the director of the Honesty Project, funded by grants totaling $4.6 million from the John Templeton Foundation. The project examines the virtue of honesty from the perspectives of philosophy and the empirical study of honesty. Miller is a regular contributor to ''Forbes''. He has also written for the ''New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Dallas Morning News'', ''Aeon'', ''Christianity Today'', and many other places. Miller has been awarded the 2014 Kulynych Family

Omicron Delta Kappa Omicron Delta Kappa (), also known as The Circle and ODK, is an American collegiate honor society that recognizes leadership and scholarship. It was founded in 1914, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and has chartered more t ...

Award for Student Engagement, the 2009 Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the 2009 Wake Forest University Award for Excellence in Research.

Books

* ''Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. * ''Moral Psychology''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. * ''The Character Gap: How Good Are We?'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. * ''Character and Moral Psychology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 288 pages. * ''Moral Character: An Empirical Theory''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 368 pages. * ''Integrity, Honesty, and Truth-Seeking''. Ed. Christian B. Miller and Ryan West. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. * ''Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character''. Ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Christian B. Miller. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017. * ''Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology''. Ed. Christian Miller, R. Michael Furr, Angela Knobel, and William Fleeson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. * ''The Continuum Companion to Ethics. Ed. Christian Miller''. London: Continuum Press, 2011. 355 Pages. Paperback Edition: The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics, 2014. * ''Phillip Quinn. Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. Ed. Christian Miller''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 328 pages.

References

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