How Much Trouble is Character in? Reflections on John Doris’s Character Trouble

Abstract John Doris’s work has been extremely influential over the past twenty years in shaping philosophical discussions about the empirical adequacy of virtue. Now, twenty years later, it is a welcome development to see many of Doris’s papers collected in one place in Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality. In my comments, I engage with three topics Doris raises pertaining to character.