Books written by Mark Alfano

  • Character as Moral Fiction
    Character as Moral Fiction

    Cohen, A., Stotland, E., and Wolfe, D. (1955). An experimental investigation of need for cognition.]ournal of'Abnormal and Social Psychology, 51:2, 291—94. Cohen, S. (1978). Environmental load and the allocation of attention.

  • Character as Moral Fiction
    Character as Moral Fiction

    This moniker was coined by Michael Stocker, according to whom one “mark ofa good life is a harmony between one's motives and one's reasons, values, justifications” (1976, p. 453). This line of argument holds that even 20 Factitious ...

  • Current Controversies in Virtue Theory
    Current Controversies in Virtue Theory

    Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list ...

  • Nietzsche's Moral Psychology
    Nietzsche's Moral Psychology

    Examines Nietzsche's thinking on the virtues using a combination of close reading and digital analysis.

  • Moral Psychology: An Introduction
    Moral Psychology: An Introduction

    Moral psychology is the systematic inquiry into how morality works, when it does work, and breaks down when it doesn't work.

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility
    The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

    The first collection to present a comprehensive overview the philosophy of humility, whilst also covering important interdisciplinary topics.

  • Social Virtue Epistemology
    Social Virtue Epistemology

    This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world.

  • Character as Moral Fiction

    Mark Alfano challenges this theory and asks, not whether character is empirically adequate, but what characters human beings could have and develop.

  • Current Controversies in Virtue Theory
    Current Controversies in Virtue Theory

    Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list ...

  • The Moral Psychology of Trust
    The Moral Psychology of Trust

    This edited volume features discussions by leading scholars on the topic of trust and its place in moral psychology.