John M. Doris is Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at Cornell
University. He works at the intersection of cognitive science, moral psychology, and philosophical
ethics, and has authored and co-authored papers for such venues as Noûs, Philosophical Studies,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Bioethics, Cognition, Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, Nature: Scientific Reports, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology. He authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral
Behavior (Cambridge, 2002), Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford,
2015), and Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality (Oxford,
2022). With Edouard Machery, he authored Reasonable Doubt: Rethinking Trust in Science
(Princeton, 2026). With the Moral Psychology Research Group, he wrote and edited The Moral
Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010) and with Manuel Vargas, edited The Oxford Handbook of
Moral Psychology (2022). Doris has been awarded funding from Michigan’s Institute for the
Humanities; Princeton’s University Center for Human Values (twice); the National Humanities
Center (twice); the American Council of Learned Societies; the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences; the National Endowment for the Humanities (4 times). For 2025-26, Doris
is president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology; he is also a winner of the Society’s
Stanton Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary research. His pedagogy has been recognized with
awards at both the undergraduate and graduate level.