Waide Center Seminar: Wed, April 8 | Christian Miller: “The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World”

Wednesday, April 8 at 4:00-5:30 pm, the Waide Center for Applied Ethics will be hosting Christian Mille (Wake Forest University), who will be giving a seminar on “The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World.” The event will be held remotely via Zoom and is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members. Please attend and encourage your students to attend. 

Christian Miller

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. (EST)

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

Zoom link: https://Fairfield.zoom.us/j/95197924493

About the Speaker: Christian Miller is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on virtue and moral character, and for ten years he was Director of The Character Project and The Honesty Protect, two of the largest research projects in the world on these topics. He is the author of over 120 academic papers and the author of numerous books, including Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021), Moral Psychology (2021), The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), and Character and Moral Psychology (2014). 

About the series: The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso, for more information.