publications

Books

The Art of the Interesting: What we miss in our pursuit of the good life and How to cultivate it. (New York: GCP Balance/Hachette, 2024). AVAILABLE NOW AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE!

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The Philosophy of Happiness: An interdisciplinary introduction (New York: Routledge Press, 2021)

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Eudaimonic Ethics: The philosopy and psychology of living well (New York: Routledge Press, 2014)

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The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics Co-edited with Michael Slote. (New York: Routledge Press, 2015)

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Articles and Book Chapters

  1. “Why is the Boring Bad?” Perspectives on Ill-Being, ed. C. Tappolet and M. Rossi, Oxford University Press, (in press).
  2. “Attachment in the Wake of Impermanence: A Comparison of Hume and Buddhism on the Practical Implications of having “No-Self”. History of Philosophy Quarterly (40)4 2023, pp. 338-358.
  3. “Re-Imagining the Quality of Life” Journal of Philosophical Research (48) 2023, pp. 233-245.
  4. “Engagement, Experience, and Value: A reply” Journal of Philosophical Research (48) 2023, pp. 259-269.
  5. “The Interesting and the Pleasant” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 24(1) 2023, pp. 58-80
  6. “Virtue” Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, ed. John Doris and Manuel Vargas. (2022)
  7. “Virtue and Moral Psychology in Hume’s Enquiry” Critical Guide to Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals, ed. Esther Kroeker and Willem Lemmens. (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
  8. “Happiness”. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), first published 2021.
  9. “Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness” (with Oishi, S., Choi, H., Koo, et al).  Affective Science 1 (2020), pp. 107-115.
  10. “The Psychologically Rich Life.” (lead author, with Shige Oishi) Philosophical Psychology,  2020.
  11. “Learning Virtue” Journal of Moral Education. Special Issue on Self-Determination Theory, Morality, and Virtue. Ed. Randall Curren and Tobias Krettenauer. 49(3) (2020), pp. 282-294.
  12. “Psychologically Rich Life Questionaire” (with Oishi, Choi, Buttrick,  Heintzelman, Kushlev, Westgate, Tucker, Ebersole, Axt, Gilbert, Ng, and Besser)   Journal of Research in Personality 89 (2019), pp. 257-270.
  13. “Hume’s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Moral Psychology” The Humean Mind, ed. Angela Coventry and Alex Sager (New York: Routledge Press, 2019) pp. 458-469.
  14. “Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and Morality: Building from Hume’s Account.”  Humean Value Theory and Contemporary Psychology, ed. Rico Vitz and Phil Reed. (New York: Routledge Press, 2018), pp. 209-225.
  15. “Virtue of Self-Regulation.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 20(3), (2017), pp. 505-517. Special Issue on New Directions of Character and Virtue, ed. Nancy Snow.
  16. “Virtue Traits and Personality Traits.” in Moral Psychology, vol 5: Virtues and Vices, ed Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Christian Miller (MIT Press, 2017), pp. 105-112.
  17.  “Conceptual Challenges for a Science of Eudaimonic Well-Being.” Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being, ed. Joar Vittersø (New York: Springer, 2016, 85-91).
  18. “Eudaimonism.” Routledge Companion to Well-Being, ed. Guy Fletcher (New York: Routledge Press, 2016), pp. 187-196.
  19. “Two Objections to Virtue Ethics.” Ethics and Politics, XVII (2), (2015), pp. 60-73.
  20. “The Situationist Critique” Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics, ed. Lorraine Besser-Jones and Michael Slote (New York: Routledge Press, 2015), pp. 375-384.
  21. “The Pursuit and Nature of Happiness.” Philosophical Topics, 41(1), (2013), pp. 103-122.
  22. “The Role of Practical Reason in an Empirically Informed Moral Theory.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15(2), (2012), pp. 202-220.
  23. “The Motivational State of the Virtuous Agent.” Philosophical Psychology, 25(1), (2012), pp. 93-108.
  24. “Virtue and Flourishing in Our Interpersonal Relationships.” Philosophic Exchange, 42 (2011-2012), pp. 5-29.
  25. “Drawn to the Good? Brewer on Dialectical Activities.” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 8 (2011), pp. 621-631.
  26. “Hume on Pride-in-Virtue: A Reliable Motive?” Hume Studies 36(2), (2010), pp. 171-193.
  27. “Social Psychology, Moral Character, and Moral Fallibility.”  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76(2), (2008), pp. 310-332.
  28. “Personal Integrity, Morality, and Psychological Well-Being.”  Journal of Moral Philosophy 5(3), (2008), pp. 361-383.
  29. “The Role of Justice in Hume’s Theory of Psychological Development.” Hume Studies 32(2), (2006), pp. 253-276.
  30. “Just War Theory, Legitimate Authority, and the ‘War’ on Terror” in Philosophy 9/11: Philosophers Look at Terrorism, ed. Timothy Shanahan  (Open Court Press:  La Salle, IL 2005).
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