Christian B. Miller

Christian B. Miller is an American philosopher specializing in ethics and philosophy of religion. He is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University.

Christian B. Miller
SubjectPhilosophy
Website
college.wfu.edu/philosophy/miller

Education and career

Miller earned his B.A. at Princeton University and his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at Wake Forest University since 2004. Miller has written three books, edited five books, and published over 80 articles, introductions and commentaries.[1]

From 2010 to 2015 he was the director of the Character Project, funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The project examined character from the disciplines of philosophy, theology, and psychology, and supported the work of dozens of scholars around the world.[2]

He is currently the philosophy director of the Beacon Project, funded by a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. The project examines the morally exceptional from the disciples of philosophy, theology, and psychology.[3]

Miller has been awarded the 2014 Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Student Engagement,[4] the 2009 Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching[5] and the 2009 Wake Forest University Award for Excellence in Research.[6]

Books
  • The Character Gap: How Good Are We? New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017.[7]
  • Character and Moral Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 288 pages.[8]
  • Moral Character: An Empirical Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 368 pages.[9]
  • Integrity, Honesty, and Truth-Seeking. Ed. Christian B. Miller and Ryan West. New York: Oxford University Press (in progress).[10]
  • Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character. Ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Christian B. Miller. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.[11]
  • 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.[12]
  • The Continuum Companion to Ethics. Ed. Christian Miller. London: Continuum Press, 2011. 355 Pages. Paperback Edition: The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics, 2014.[13]
  • Phillip Quinn. Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. Ed. Christian Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 328 pages.[14]

References
  1. "Christian B. Miller". college.wfu.edu.
  2. "The Character Project". thecharacterproject.com.
  3. "Home - The Beacon Project". The Beacon Project.
  4. "The Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award - Office of the Provost - Wake Forest University". Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  5. "Faculty Teaching Awards - Teaching - Wake Forest University". teaching.wfu.edu.
  6. "Graduate School Awards - Office of the Provost - Wake Forest University". Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  7. Miller, Christian B. (1 December 2017). "The Character Gap: How Good Are We?". Oxford University Press, Incorporated – via Google Books.
  8. Miller, Christian B. (21 September 2017). "Character and Moral Psychology". OUP Oxford – via Google Books.
  9. Miller, Christian B. (9 May 2013). "Moral Character: An Empirical Theory". OUP Oxford – via Google Books.
  10. "Grove City Faculty Ink Book Contracts with Oxford". 14 June 2017.
  11. Miller, Christian B. (24 March 2017). "Moral Psychology: Virtue and Character". MIT Press – via Google Books.
  12. Miller, Christian B.; Furr, R. Michael; Knobel, Angela; Fleeson, William (21 September 2017). "Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
  13. Miller, Christian (25 September 2014). "The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics". Bloomsbury Publishing – via Google Books.
  14. Quinn, Philip L. (12 October 2006). "Essays in the Philosophy of Religion". Clarendon Press – via Google Books.


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