IGSP Faculty

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, PhD

Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong received his BA from Amherst College in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1982. He taught at Dartmouth College from 1981 until he came to Duke in 2010. His current research focuses on empirical moral psychology and neuroscience and on the implications of neuroscience for the legal system and for free will and moral responsibility.

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Recent Publications

Neuroprediction of future rearrest.

Aharoni E, Vincent GM, Harenski CL, Calhoun VD, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Gazzaniga MS, Kiehl KA, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Apr 9;110(15):6223-8. Abstract

Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will.

Schlegel A, Alexander P, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Roskies A, Tse PU, Wheatley T, Exp Brain Res. 2013 Mar 28;. Abstract

Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics.

Sinnott-Armstrong W, Miller FG, J Med Ethics. 2013 Jan;39(1):12-4. Abstract

What makes killing wrong?

Sinnott-Armstrong W, Miller FG, J Med Ethics. 2013 Jan;39(1):3-7. Abstract

Can psychopathic offenders discern moral wrongs? A new look at the moral/conventional distinction.

Aharoni E, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Kiehl KA, J Abnorm Psychol. 2012 May;121(2):484-97. Abstract

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