Christian Miller || How Good Are We, Really?

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today it’s great to have Christian Miller on the podcast. Dr. Miller is A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and Director of the Character Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 75 papers as well as the author of Moral Character: An Empirical Theory, Character and Moral Psychology, and most recently, The Character Gap: How Good Are We? In this episode we discuss: The main aims of the Character Project Christian’s attempt to integrate positive psychology research with philosophy Replication of the famous Milgram experiment Fairness norms among infants Can we draw boundaries around the notion of “moral character”? What factors predict whether people help? How we’re a mixed bag between the poles of compassion and callousness What Christian’s research has discovered about people’s tendency toward helping, hurting, lying and cheating Can we make humans better? How SBK and Aristotle are on the same page --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:13.0	I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman,
0:15.0	and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest
0:18.0	who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding
0:20.0	of yourself, others, and the world we live in. Hopefully we'll also provide a
0:24.7	glimpse into human possibility. Thanks for Christian Miller on the podcast.
0:37.0	Dr Miller is a.C. Reed Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and director of the Character Project funded by the John
0:44.3	Tempton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of
0:48.8	75 papers as well as the author of Moral character and empirical theory character and moral
0:54.8	psychology and most recently the book the character gap how good are we
0:59.0	hey Christian thanks so much for chatting with me today
1:01.6	thanks so much for having on me. Thanks so much for having me on your show.
1:04.2	So how good are we really?
1:06.6	Well, that's a big question, to start us off right away.
1:10.9	Out of the gate.
1:11.9	Yeah, right, let's not messing around.
1:13.8	So one question is what is good meaning here and what are our standards that we're going
1:17.6	to be used to evaluate whether someone is good or not.
1:20.8	Another question is who the we is. And then another question still is what source of evidence
1:26.4	am I going to be using to decide how good are we. But let me all say something briefly on each of those.
1:33.0	So the good I have in mind here when we say how good are we is virtuous.
1:38.0	So I'm a philosopher who works in the area of ethics.
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