Reasonable Partiality and the Agent's Point of View

The importance of this paper is that develops an interdisciplinary approach to foundational issues in meta-ethics and moral psychology. It is argued that our best theories of consciousness and self-knowledge show that virtue ethics alone can explain the sense in which our relation to our own character is non-alienating. This implies that virtue ethics cannot be a derived component of other normative ethical theories such as consequentialism. After publication this paper was presented, by invitation, to the AHRC project on partiality and impartiality in ethics and has been cited in more recent discussions of integrity and moral character.