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Christian B. Miller
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I am the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, and author of several books including The Character Gap, Moral Psychology, and Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue. Contributor @Forbes. christianbmiller.com
The book is off!!

"The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World" has been sent to Oxford to be printed. Publication expected in the spring! Final table of contents in comments below. Piggy was a big help writing the book (okay, I'm not being honest).
August 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My Ethical Theory class is off and running @wakeforest.bsky.social!
August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
First Day of Class, Year 21 at Wake Forest University!
(@wakeforest.bsky.social)
August 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Had a great visit to the mountains of North Carolina and the Center for Life Enrichment to talk about material on dishonesty from the new book!
August 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Wrapped up another great conference at Park City Utah.
June 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Need to start a new shelf on the publication wall to add these two.
June 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The moment the truth about the virtue of patience is finally revealed...
June 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Speaker dinner at the positive moral philosophy conference after a full day of great papers.
May 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Where am I?
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Positive Moral Philosophy conference is off to a great start with talks by Miranda Fricker and Cheshire Calhoun!
May 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited to be at the launch conference for the field of positive moral philosophy!
May 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
**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)
May 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“Deepfakes and Dishonesty” | Philosophy & Technology

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

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Congratulations to the class of 2025!

Twenty years of wonderful graduations on the quad.
May 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Getting ready for the big day!
May 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Last Day of Class!

Just completed 20 years of teaching at Wake Forest.

And this was one of my favorite classes.
April 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Back home after a great visit to my alma mater, Princeton, for the Undergraduate Philosophy Lecture.

I got to give it in the Einstein room, the same one he used to lecture in!
April 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Back from a great visit to Hampden-Sydney College where I teamed up with Sabrina Little to teach their capstone seminar. 14 tutorial meetings, 2 seminar meetings, and 2 public lectures = a lot of fun doing philosophy!
April 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Extremely honored to deliver the 25th Annual Hubert McNeill Poteat Lecture here at Wake Forest University on April 3 at 4pm. If you are in the area, feel free to come by!

"Honesty: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World."

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hope you are having a better day than Big Piggy is!
March 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
From the science center in Charlotte.

I have... questions....
March 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Excited about this tomorrow!
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Happy to be back home and at the Wake Forest game with the kids!
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Excited about my upcoming session at the Learning & the Brain conference on Teaching Stronger Brains: Promoting Student Strengths, Character, Compassion, Hope, and Autonomy in a Deficit-Focused Age. #LatB70.
February 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM