We tend to admire people who stay true to their convictions in the face of opposition, who are not tempted to twist or withhold the truth for selfish reasons, and who seek the truth even when it means giving up their cherished views. Indeed, integrity, honesty, and truth seeking are crucial virtues on both intimate and global scales, significant in everything from our relationships to our politicians' accountability. The past forty years have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of philosophical interest in the virtues. And yet there has been surprisingly little work among philosophers aimed at helping us better understand these three truth-related virtues.Edited by philosophers Christian B. Miller and Ryan West, this interdisciplinary volume significantly advances the discussion of integrity, honesty, and truth seeking by incorporating the insights and perspectives of experts in philosophy, law, communication and rhetorical studies, theology, psychology, history, and education. Each of the volume's three sections is devoted to one virtue, and comprises a conceptual chapter about the nature of the virtue in question, an application chapter that explores the virtue's central role in an area of human life, and a developmental chapter covering some of the ways people can foster the virtue. Additionally, the volume addresses experimental work on honest and dishonest behavior, one of the fastest growing and most important research areas in the field of moral psychology today.Every reader will come away from this volume with a deepened knowledge of and appreciation for the essential roles of these three virtues in our world, and rich resources for developing and sustaining them in life.

Series Editor's ForewordIntroduction, Christian B. Miller and Ryan WestPart One: IntegrityChapter 1: To Thine Own Self Be True? Integrity and Concern for Truth, Greg ScherkoskeChapter 2: The Legal Enforcement of Integrity, Stuart P. GreenChapter 3: Enacting Integrity, Jennifer A. HerdtPart Two: HonestyChapter 4: The Virtue of Honesty: A Conceptual Exploration, Robert C. Roberts and Ryan WestChapter 5: Honesty as Ethical Communicative Practice: A Framework for Analysis, Janie Harden FritzChapter 6: Margarita Leib and Shaul Shalvi, Justifications as a Threat to Honesty: A Behavioral Ethics ApproachChapter 7: Becoming Honest: Why We Lie and What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter and Jason BaehrPart Three: Truth SeekingChapter 8: Intellectual Temperance: Lessons in Truth Seeking from Augustine and Aquinas, W. Jay WoodChapter 9: Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians, Martin JayChapter 10: Developing Truth Seekers, Philip E. Dow