Integrity, Honesty, and Truth Seeking

Christian B. Miller is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project and is Past Director of the Character Project. He is the author of over 80 academic papers as well as three books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), and The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017). His writings have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, and Christianity Today. Miller is the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP, 2006), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (OUP, 2015), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press, 2017), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press, 2011).

Ryan West is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grove City College. His research areas include ethics, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in such journals as Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Faith and Philosophy, and Journal of Religious Ethics.

Series Editor's Foreword
Introduction, Christian B. Miller and Ryan West

Part One: Integrity
Chapter 1: To Thine Own Self Be True? Integrity and Concern for Truth, Greg Scherkoske
Chapter 2: The Legal Enforcement of Integrity, Stuart P. Green
Chapter 3: Enacting Integrity, Jennifer A. Herdt

Part Two: Honesty
Chapter 4: The Virtue of Honesty: A Conceptual Exploration, Robert C. Roberts and Ryan West
Chapter 5: Honesty as Ethical Communicative Practice: A Framework for Analysis, Janie Harden Fritz
Chapter 6: Margarita Leib and Shaul Shalvi, Justifications as a Threat to Honesty: A Behavioral Ethics Approach
Chapter 7: Becoming Honest: Why We Lie and What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter and Jason Baehr

Part Three: Truth Seeking
Chapter 8: Intellectual Temperance: Lessons in Truth Seeking from Augustine and Aquinas, W. Jay Wood
Chapter 9: Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians, Martin Jay
Chapter 10: Developing Truth Seekers, Philip E. Dow