The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness

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The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness is written by Nancy E. Snow and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135136106 (ISBN 10) and 9781135136109 (ISBN 13).

Since ancient times, character, virtue, and happiness have been central to thinking about how to live well. Yet until recently, philosophers have thought about these topics in an empirical vacuum. Taking up the general challenge of situationism – that philosophers should pay attention to empirical psychology – this interdisciplinary volume presents new essays from empirically informed perspectives by philosophers and psychologists on western as well as eastern conceptions of character, virtue, and happiness, and related issues such as personality, emotion and cognition, attitudes and automaticity. Researchers at the top of their fields offer exciting work that expands the horizons of empirically informed research on topics central to virtue ethics.