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Books

The Character Gap by Christian B. Miller

Massimo Pigliucci is frank about human character.

None of us are quite as good as we think. This isn’t just my pessimistic opinion about the human race; it’s the result of systematic research on character in modern psychology.

This gap between opinion and reality is the focus of Christian Miller’s book The Character Gap: How Good Are We? Miller is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and the Director of the Character Project, a Templeton-funded multidisciplinary study of academic resources, so he is well positioned to write about character, from both a philosophical and an empirical perspective.

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