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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics
Philosophy
Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Duke University Box 90432, 203B West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Tests of consciousness in humans, animals and AI: An in-person meeting

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Canada Institute for Advanced Research · 2024 - 2026

Making Moral AI

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by OpenAI LP · 2022 - 2026

Building empathy for listening, learning, and depolarization in the US and Brazil

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Templeton World Charity Foundation · 2024 - 2026

The Evolution of Comity: An Interdiscilinary Exploration of the Nature, Developmental Origins and Future of Shared Humanity

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Templeton World Charity Foundation · 2020 - 2025

The Development of Intellectual Humility (Pilot Grants)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2021 - 2023

How Stories Inspire Virtuous Behavior

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Yale University · 2019 - 2022

The Development of Intellectual Humility (Virtual Research Network)

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2021 - 2021

Book Funding: "Free Will? Questions and Answers from Neuroscientists and Philosophers"

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Chapman University · 2019 - 2020

Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP)

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2016 - 2020

How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Future of Life Institute · 2015 - 2018

MAD Lab (Moral Attitudes and Decisions Laboratory)

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · 2016 - 2016

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Racial Inequality Research Grant: Implicit Racial Moral Approach Avoidance Tendencies: Basic and Practical Applications · 2022 PI · Awarded by: Duke Office of the Provost

External Relationships


  • Besample
  • Many Stocks

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