Lack of Character? Situationism Critiqued*

By J. Sabini, Maury Silver. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 2005

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Virtuous states and virtuous traits: How the empirical evidence regarding the existence of broad traits saves virtue ethics from the situationist critique (2014, background): “The argument about the stability and predictive value of broad character traits such as compassion and honesty echoes a long debate in both the psychology and philosophy literatures (Doris, 1998; Flanagan, 1991; Sabini and Silver, 2005).”
Deciding what's right: The role of external sanctions and embarrassment in shaping moral judgments in the workplace (2008, background): “…and shame (Lewis, 1993; Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999) are natural responses to moral transgressions (Eisenberg, 2000; Keltner & Buswell, 1997; Sabini & Silver, 2005), but also because, as argued below, such emotions (particularly embarrassment) help to shape our moral judgments (i.e., our…”
Character: The Prospects for a Personality-Based Perspective on Morality (2014, background): “Relatedly, Sabini and Silver (2005) argued that the true implication of situationism is not that our characters are heavily influenced by “subtle situational forces” but that our commonplace dispositions are in many cases helpless in the wake of the powerful pressures such as a resolute authority…”