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

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Education:

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

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Aaron J Ancell
• Gordon Steenbergen
• Whitney Kane
• Susanne Meyer
• 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. Simmons, C; Krasich, K; Chitre, A; Sinnott-Armstrong, W (2025). Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 119. [doi]  [abs]
2. Earp, BD; Porsdam Mann, S; van Veenendaal, T; Allen, JW; Salloch, S; Jongsma, KR; Braun, M; Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Savulescu, J; Rid, A; Wendler, D (2025). Respecting formerly autonomous persons: clarifying the role of the Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4) in substituted judgement.. Journal of medical ethics, jme-2025-110729. [doi]
3. Keswani, V; Conitzer, V; Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Nguyen, BK; Heidari, H; Schaich Borg, J (2025). Can AI Model the Complexities of Human Moral Decision-making? A Qualitative Study of Kidney Allocation Decisions. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings. [doi]  [abs]
4. Soter, LK; Ramirez, V; Sinnott-Armstrong, W (2025). U.S. citizens' judgments of moral transgressions against fellow citizens, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.. Journal of personality and social psychology. [doi]  [abs]
5. Stanley, ML; Neck, CP; Neck, CB; Sinnott-Armstrong, W (2025). Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft. Journal of Business Ethics. [doi]  [abs]