Christian B. Miller

This Is How Often People Lie in a Day Deception researchers investigate under what circumstances we are liable to let loose a whopper

This Is How Often People Lie in a Day

Deception researchers investigate under what circumstances we are liable to let loose a whopper. Scientific American.

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Authors out there!
My next book is coming out in 2026 with OUP, and I am thinking about hiring a book publicity/marketing firm. The book is on challenges to honesty in society, and is written for a general audience. Do you have any recommendations of people or firms in this space? Thanks so much!

Could A Good God Permit So Much Suffering? A Debate As J. L. Mackie (1955, 200) formulated the so-called logical problem of evil: God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to...

"The thought of them engaging in fruitful debate on such a perennial problem struck me as a tantalizing prospect. I’m therefore sorry to report that the great promise of this volume largely failed to materialize."

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Requirements: Must have a Ph.D. in philosophy or be enrolled in a philosophy graduate program. Please email me at millerc@wfu.edu, attach your CV, and indicate the specific topic or area of philosophy in which you would like to review a book (or propose a specific book title).

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I'm the book review editor at the Journal of Moral Philosophy. We have a pile of books looking for reviewers. If interested in reviewing a book in ethics/political/action that came out in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025, please keep reading. And please share this too!

Wrapped up another great conference at Park City Utah.

Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...

Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

You really got what I was trying to do. Thank you for reading it so carefully!

Think about all the good that compassionate people have done in the world, and contrast this with all the harm caused by those full of cruelty and hate. What world would you rather live in? And what kind of people do you want your children to become—people who grow up to make the world a better or a worse place? Surely it is the former. But if that is what you want for your children, why wouldn't you want the same thing for yourself, right now? There is always time to change our character. It is never stuck in the mud, but is improvable, at least slowly. So just as we want our children to grow up to make the world a better place, so too should we want ourselves to "grow up" to the fullest, morally speaking.

Picture of The Character Gap: How Good Are We? by Christian Miller. Cover has a thermometer like scales on the left going from red at the bottom to blue at the top, but the endpoints are Hitler on the bottom in red and Gandhi on the top in blue.

“Think about all the good that compassionate people have done in the world, and contrast this with all the harm caused by those full of cruelty and hate. What world would you rather live in?”
The Character Gap, pg. 40
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#lunchtimereading

Thank you so much for sharing this, and I hope you find the book helpful!

Need to start a new shelf on the publication wall to add these two.

Thank you for the very kind words ...I'm excited!

Excellent news @charactergap.bsky.social 🎉

Thanks for sharing the contents, there are some fascinating sounding chapters in there!

Excited to share that my next book will be coming out with Oxford University Press!

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World

and it is my second book written for a popular audience (following The Character Gap: How Good Are We?). The TOC is below.

Thanks so much for posting this!!

Christian is in front of a slide which makes reference to Gwen Branford’s work on achievement.

@charactergap.bsky.social Christian Miller defended an account of patience as a virtue. Coleen Macnamara spoke about the praiseworthiness of morally required action. Gwen Bradford’s work got a shout-out!

Hahah, you are the best Dan! Thanks!

Chapter Five: Fake News and the Honesty Crisis in Politics
Chapter Six: Fame, Lying, and the Honesty Crisis for Celebrities
Chapter Seven: Pastors and the Honesty Crisis in Religion
Chapter Eight: Why the News is Not All Bad
Chapter Nine: If Honesty Is Under Attack, Why Bother Trying to Protect It?

Chapter One: Honesty is a Lot More Interesting Than You Might Think
Chapter Two: AI, Academic Cheating, and the Honesty Crisis in Education
Chapter Three: Online Infidelity and the Honesty Crisis in Relationships
Chapter Four: The Honesty Crisis Surrounding Deepfakes

Excited to share that my next book will be coming out with Oxford University Press!

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World

and it is my second book written for a popular audience (following The Character Gap: How Good Are We?). The TOC is below.

Fully updated my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on "Distributive Justice and Empirical Moral Psychology." I hope it is a helpful resource!

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The moment the truth about the virtue of patience is finally revealed...

Speaker dinner at the positive moral philosophy conference after a full day of great papers.

Where am I?

The Positive Moral Philosophy conference is off to a great start with talks by Miranda Fricker and Cheshire Calhoun!

Excited to be at the launch conference for the field of positive moral philosophy!

**New Publication**

My chapter with Geoffrey Claussen on Character and Musar has appeared in The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy. (Full disclosure: Geoff did the vast majority of the work on this chapter)

**New Publication**

My chapter with Geoffrey Claussen on Character and Musar has appeared in The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy. (Full disclosure: Geoff did the vast majority of the work on this chapter)

“Deepfakes and Dishonesty” | Philosophy & Technology

So great to see the print version! Available open access here:

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“Deepfakes and Dishonesty” | Philosophy & Technology

So great to see the print version! Available open access here:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...