TY - JOUR
T1 - Situationism and the concept of a situation
AU - Kristjánsson, K.
N1 - Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/6/1
Y1 - 2012/6/1
N2 - The concept of a situation underlying the debate between moral situationists and dispositionists conceals various underexplored complexities. Some of those issues have been engaged recently in the so-called psychology of situations, but they have been slow to receive attention in mainstream philosophy. I invoke various distinctions among situations, and show how situationists have selectively chosen certain types of situations that, for conceptual reasons, skew the argument in their favour. I introduce the concept of a 'virtue-calibrated situation', and argue that if the person-situation debate is to move forward in philosophy as it has in psychology, it must focus on such situations. I bring to bear evidence from analytic and continental philosophy, as well as from social and personality psychology.
AB - The concept of a situation underlying the debate between moral situationists and dispositionists conceals various underexplored complexities. Some of those issues have been engaged recently in the so-called psychology of situations, but they have been slow to receive attention in mainstream philosophy. I invoke various distinctions among situations, and show how situationists have selectively chosen certain types of situations that, for conceptual reasons, skew the argument in their favour. I introduce the concept of a 'virtue-calibrated situation', and argue that if the person-situation debate is to move forward in philosophy as it has in psychology, it must focus on such situations. I bring to bear evidence from analytic and continental philosophy, as well as from social and personality psychology.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00474.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00474.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84861721424
SN - 0966-8373
VL - 20
SP - 52
EP - 72
JO - European Journal of Philosophy
JF - European Journal of Philosophy
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -