Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics

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Teaching (Spring 2024):

• Neurosci 267.01, Neuroethics Synopsis

  Old chem 001, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	1982
A.B.	Amherst College	1977

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Aaron J Ancell
• Susanne Meyer
• Gordon Steenbergen
• Whitney Kane
• David L. Barack

Postdocs Mentored

• Nina Strohminger (2013/11-present)
• Jesse Summers (2013/11-present)
• Jana Schaich Borg (2013/11-present)
• Tommaso Bruni (2013/11-present)
• Devin Singh (2013/11-present)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. McKee, P; Kim, H-E; Tang, H; Everett, JAC; Chituc, V; Gibea, T; Marques, LM; Boggio, P; Sinnott-Armstrong, W (2024). Does it matter who harmed whom? A cross-cultural study of moral judgments about harm by and to insiders and outsiders.. Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 43(9), 7997-8007. [doi]  [abs]
2. Earp, BD; Porsdam Mann, S; Allen, J; Salloch, S; Suren, V; Jongsma, K; Braun, M; Wilkinson, D; Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Rid, A; Wendler, D; Savulescu, J (2024). A Personalized Patient Preference Predictor for Substituted Judgments in Healthcare: Technically Feasible and Ethically Desirable.. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 1-14. [doi]  [abs]
3. Hopp, FR; Amir, O; Fisher, JT; Grafton, S; Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Weber, R (2023). Moral foundations elicit shared and dissociable cortical activation modulated by political ideology.. Nature human behaviour, 7(12), 2182-2198. [doi]  [abs]
4. Simmons, C; Helming, K; Musholt, K; Sinnott-Armstrong, W (2023). Where is the golden mean of intellectual humility? Comments on Ballantyne. Journal of Positive Psychology, 18(2), 240-243. [doi]  [abs]
5. Sinnott-Armstrong, W (2023). Dahl’s Definition of Morality. Psychological Inquiry, 34(2), 106-109. [doi]