 Character skepticism contravenes the influential program of contemporary virtue ethics, which maintains that advancing ethical theory requires more attention to character, and virtue ethicists offer vigorous  resistance.[12]  Discussion has sometimes been overheated, but it has resulted in a large literature in a vibrantly interdisciplinary field of “character studies” (e.g., Miller et al.  2015).[13]  The literature is too extensive for the confines of this entry, but we will endeavor to outline some of the main issues. 