Character, common-sense, and expertise

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-104

  Webber, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Character traits; Correspondence bias; Fundamental attribution error; Intuition; Methodology; Situationalism; Situationism; Social psychology; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847313249     PISSN: 13862820     EISSN: 15728447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-006-9041-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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