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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

Scholarly Works - Book reviews


Why We Laugh Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams Jr. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 373 pp. $29.95, £22.95. ISBN 9780262015820.

Book review Science · June 10, 2011 Contemplating why we find some things funny, the authors provide cognitive and evolutionary perspectives on humor and its importance to humans. ... Full text Cite

Responsibility and fault

Book review LAW AND PHILOSOPHY · January 1, 2001 Link to item Cite

Value judgment: Improving our ethical beliefs

Book review PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH · January 2000 Link to item Cite

Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character

Book review Ethical Theory and Moral Practice · 1999 Cite

Morality, Normativity, and Society

Book review The Philosophical Review · October 1996 Cite

Morality and Action

Book review International Journal of Philosophical Studies · 1996 Cite

The Structure of Justification

Book review The Philosophical Quarterly · July 1995 Cite

Moral Imagination

Book review Mind · July 1994 Cite

Human Morality

Book review Philosophical Books · 1993 Cite

Playing by the Rules

Book review Philosophical Books · April 1992 Cite

Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict

Book review Philosophical Books · July 1989 Cite

Spreading the Word

Book review Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · September 1987 Cite

Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry

Book review Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, · June 1983 Cite

The Life of the Mind

Book review Grolier’s Masterplots: 1979 Annual · 1979 Cite