Talk:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Duke University

Image: images/armstrong.jpgWalter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is also core faculty in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Walter was born in Memphis, Tennessee, went to high school at The Hotchkiss School, received his BA from Amherst College in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982, and then taught at Dartmouth College until 2009. He has visited or held fellowships at Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Barbara as well as in Australia, Brazil, and Taiwan. He has served as vice-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and co-director of the MacArthur Project on Law and Neuroscience.

Walter publishes widely in normative moral theory, meta-ethics, applied ethics, moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. His current research focuses on empirical moral psychology and neuroscience (including experiments on psychopaths) and on the implications of neuroscience for the legal system and for free will and moral responsibility (including the responsibility of addicts). Most relevant to this course, he co-authors (with Robert Fogelin) the accompanying textbook, Understanding Arguments, and has taught a course on informal logic for over three decades.

Outside philosophy, he enjoys golf, travel, eating, and his two children, not in that order.

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