This book features findings by interdisciplinary teams of researchers on the topics of self, motivation, and virtue. The chapters bring together scholars from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology to advance our understanding of these important topics, and to showcase a variety of research methods of interdisciplinary interest.

Nancy E. Snow is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory, and more than 45 papers on ethics. She has edited The Oxford Handbook of Virtue.

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. One of her recent books, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award.

Introduction

Nancy E. Snow and Darcia Narvaez

1. Self, Motivation, and Virtue or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deep Integration

Moin Syed, Colin G. DeYoung, and Valerie Tiberius

2. Expansive Interdisciplinarity and the Moral Self

Javier Gomez-Lavin, Jesse Prinz, Nina Strohminger, Shaun Nichols

3. The Virtues of Interdisciplinary Research: Psychological and Philosophical Inquiry into Self, Motivation, and Virtue

Blaine J. Fowers, and Bradford Cokelet

4: Virtue and Self-Distancing

Warren Herold, Walter Sowden, and Ethan Kross

5. Admiring Moral Exemplars: Sketch of an Ethical Sub-Discipline

Robert Roberts and Michael Spezio

6. Achieving Deep Integration Across Disciplines: A Process Lens on Investigating Human Flourishing

Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, John Dunne, and Paul Condon

7. Toward an Integrated Psychology and Philosophy of Good Life Stories

Jack J. Bauer and Peggy DesAutels

8. Reflections on our Sociological-Philosophical Study of the Self, Motivation, and Virtue among LGBTI Conservative Christians and their Allies

Theresa W. Tobin and Dawne Moon

9. Integrating 'Cultures of Reasoning': Interdisciplinary Research on Motivating the Self to Wisdom and Virtue

Ricca Edmondson, Michel Ferrari, Monika Ardelt, and Hyeyoung Bang