Integrity, honesty, and truth seeking are important virtues that most people care about and want to see promoted in society. Yet surprisingly, there has been relatively little work among scholars today aimed at helping us better understand this cluster of virtues related to truth. This volume incorporates the insights and perspectives of experts working in a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, law, communication and rhetorical studies, theology, psychology, history, and education. For each virtue, there is a conceptual chapter, an application chapter, and a developmental chapter. The resulting volume significantly deepens our knowledge about and appreciation for these central virtues.

• Series Editor's Foreword


• Introduction, Christian B. Miller and Ryan West


• Part One: Integrity


• Chapter 1: To Thine Own Self Be True? Integrity and Concern for Truth, Greg Scherkoske


• Chapter 2: The Legal Enforcement of Integrity, Stuart P. Green


• Chapter 3: Enacting Integrity, Jennifer A. Herdt


• Part Two: Honesty


• Chapter 4: The Virtue of Honesty: A Conceptual Exploration, Robert C. Roberts and Ryan West


• Chapter 5: Honesty as Ethical Communicative Practice: A Framework for Analysis, Janie Harden Fritz


• Chapter 6: Margarita Leib and Shaul Shalvi, Justifications as a Threat to Honesty: A Behavioral Ethics Approach


• Chapter 7: Becoming Honest: Why We Lie and What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter and Jason Baehr


• Part Three: Truth Seeking


• Chapter 8: Intellectual Temperance: Lessons in Truth Seeking from Augustine and Aquinas, W. Jay Wood


• Chapter 9: Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians, Martin Jay


• Chapter 10: Developing Truth Seekers, Philip E. Dow

Christian B. Miller is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He was the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project and the Director of the Character Project. He is the author of over 80 academic papers as well as three books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), and The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017). His writings have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, and Christianity Today. Miller is the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP, 2006), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (OUP, 2015), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press, 2017), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press, 2011).

Ryan West is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grove City College. His research areas include ethics,
philosophical psychology, and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in such journals as Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Faith and Philosophy, and Journal of Religious Ethics.