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The Dissenter · 2025-05-26 · 67 min · 9,949 words

#1102 Mandi Astola: Character, Virtue, and Vice

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Mandy Astola. She is assistant professor of philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. Her research focuses on character, and today we're going to talk about character, virtues and vices, the sense of humor, group.

characters and Mandevilian virtues and vices. So Dr. Astola, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you.

It's very nice to be on the show. And these are my favorite topics, so I'm always happy to talk about them. Great. So let's start with this question then. What is character?

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