Motor Skill and Moral Virtue

Running head: VIRTUE ETHICS AND MORAL IDENTITY Exploring the Relationship between Virtue Ethics and Moral Identity

The concept of moral identity based on virtue ethics has become an issue of considerable import in explaining moral behavior. This attempt to offer adequate explanations of the full range of morally relevant human behavior inevitably provokes boundary issues between ethics and moral psychology. In terms of the relationship between the two disciplines, some argue for “naturalized (or psychologiz...

On Hope as a Moral Virtue

Against Moral Character Evaluations: the Undetectability of Virtue and Vice

I defend the epistemic thesis that evaluations of people in terms of their moral character as good, bad, or intermediate are almost always epistemically unjustified. (1) Because most people are fragmented (they would behave deplorably in many and admirably in many other situations), one’s prior probability that any given person is fragmented should be high. (2) Because one’s information about s...

Effects of Motor Skill Instruction on Fundamental Motor Skill Development

298 Jacqueline D. Goodway is with the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 43210. E-mail: [email protected]. Heather Crowe is with Towson University, Department of Kinesiology, Towson, MD 21252. Phillip Ward is with the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Effects of Motor...

Relationship between Motor Skill Competence and Physical Activity in Girls

This study examined the relationship between motor skill competence, and physical activity in 8–9 years-old girls (N=352). Locomotor and object control skill competence was assessed, using the Test of Gross Motor Development-2, and the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children was used to assess physical activity. Regression analysis revealed that locomotor proficiency accounted for 20% (P...