 Aristotelian Conception of Character is the Wrong Conception. Other participants in this discussion have shown less interest in defending Aristotelian conceptions of character. Instead they wanted to see what non-Aristotelian accounts have to offer, and whether they can better accommodate studies like those cited above. Three examples of philosophers who have gone in this direction are Maria Merritt, who supported a Humean account, Eric Wielenberg, who supported a Kantian account, and Edward Slingerland, who supported a Confucian account (Merritt 2000; Wielenberg 2006: 466, 469; Slingerland 2011).