Christian B. Miller
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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.
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 five books, edited five books, and published over 125 articles, introductions and commentaries.{{cite web|url=http://college.wfu.edu/philosophy/miller/|title=Christian B. Miller|website=college.wfu.edu}}
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.{{cite web|title=The Character Project|url=http://thecharacterproject.com|website=thecharacterproject.com|language=en}}
From 2015 to 2018, he was the philosophy director of the Beacon Project, funded by a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. The project examined the morally exceptional from the disciples of philosophy, theology, and psychology.{{cite web|url=http://www.moralbeacons.org/|title=Home - The Beacon Project|website=The Beacon Project}}
From 2018 to 2023, he is the director of the Honesty Project, funded by grants totaling $4.6 million from the John Templeton Foundation. The project examines the virtue of honesty from the perspectives of philosophy and the empirical study of honesty.{{cite web|url=https://honestyproject.philosophy.wfu.edu/|title=The Honesty Project}}
Miller is a regular contributor to Forbes.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianmiller/?sh=1ed7e53974c9|title=Christian Miller|website=Forbes}} He has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Aeon, Christianity Today, and many other places.{{cite web|url=https://www.christianbmiller.com/popular-writing-2/|title=Christian B Miller - Popular Writing|website=Christian B Miller}}
Miller has been awarded the 2014 Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Student Engagement,{{cite web|url=http://provost.wfu.edu/news-and-events/wake-forest-awards/the-kulynych-family-omicron-delta-kappa-award/|title=The Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award - Office of the Provost - Wake Forest University|publisher=|access-date=2017-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728204356/http://provost.wfu.edu/news-and-events/wake-forest-awards/the-kulynych-family-omicron-delta-kappa-award/|archive-date=2017-07-28|url-status=dead}} the 2009 Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching{{cite web|url=http://teaching.wfu.edu/faculty-distinctions/|title=Faculty Teaching Awards - Teaching - Wake Forest University|website=teaching.wfu.edu}} and the 2009 Wake Forest University Award for Excellence in Research.{{cite web|url=http://provost.wfu.edu/news-and-events/wake-forest-awards/graduate-school-awards/|title=Graduate School Awards - Office of the Provost - Wake Forest University|publisher=|access-date=2017-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728213047/http://provost.wfu.edu/news-and-events/wake-forest-awards/graduate-school-awards/|archive-date=2017-07-28|url-status=dead}}
Books
- Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.{{cite web|url=http://philosophy.wfu.edu/miller/publications/|title=Christian B Miller - Publications|website=Christian B Miller}}
- Moral Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.{{cite web|url=http://philosophy.wfu.edu/miller/publications/|title=Christian B Miller - Publications|website=Christian B Miller}}
- The Character Gap: How Good Are We? New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74jhAQAACAAJ&q=the+character+gap|title=The Character Gap: How Good Are We?|first=Christian B.|last=Miller|date=1 December 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press, Incorporated|isbn=9780190264222|via=Google Books}}
- Character and Moral Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 288 pages.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PW31AQAAQBAJ|title=Character and Moral Psychology|first=Christian B.|last=Miller|date=21 September 2017|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780199674367|via=Google Books}}
- Moral Character: An Empirical Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 368 pages.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aNsZinvWGR4C|title=Moral Character: An Empirical Theory|first=Christian B.|last=Miller|date=9 May 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780199674350|via=Google Books}}
- Integrity, Honesty, and Truth-Seeking. Ed. Christian B. Miller and Ryan West. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.{{cite web|url=http://businessjournaldaily.com/grove-city-faculty-ink-book-contracts-with-oxford/|title=Grove City Faculty Ink Book Contracts with Oxford|date=14 June 2017|publisher=}}
- Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character. Ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Christian B. Miller. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-x1DgAAQBAJ|title=Moral Psychology: Virtue and Character|first=Christian B.|last=Miller|date=24 March 2017|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262035576|via=Google Books}}
- 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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrdRCgAAQBAJ|title=Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology|first1=Christian B.|last1=Miller|first2=R. Michael|last2=Furr|first3=Angela|last3=Knobel|first4=William|last4=Fleeson|date=21 September 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190204600|via=Google Books}}
- The Continuum Companion to Ethics. Ed. Christian Miller. London: Continuum Press, 2011. 355 Pages. Paperback Edition: The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics, 2014.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzxuBAAAQBAJ|title=The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics|first=Christian|last=Miller|date=25 September 2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781472567802|via=Google Books}}
- Phillip Quinn. Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. Ed. Christian Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 328 pages.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5y6ENRug1cC|title=Essays in the Philosophy of Religion|first=Philip L.|last=Quinn|date=12 October 2006|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=9780191569500|via=Google Books}}
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