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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 sections


Experimental Ethics

Book section · January 1, 2023 Cite

How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve?

Book section · January 1, 2021 Philosophers often argue about whether fetuses, animals, or AI systems do or do not have moral status. We will suggest instead that different entities have different degrees of moral status with respect to different moral reasons in different circumstances ... Full text Cite

Some ethics of deep brain stimulation

Book section · January 16, 2020 Case reports about patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for various motor and psychiatric disorders-including Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and treatment resistant depression-have sparked a vast literature in neuroethics. ... Full text Cite

Does neuroscience undermine morality?

Book section · January 1, 2018 In Chapter 4, the authors explore whether neuroscience undermines morality. The authors distinguish, analyze, and assess the main arguments for neuroscientific skepticism about morality and argue that neuroscience does not undermine all of our moral judgme ... Full text Cite

Implicit morality: A methodological survey

Book section · September 23, 2014 Full text Cite

Are Addicts Responsible?

Book section · 2014 Cite

Introduction

Book section · January 1, 2014 Cite

Introduction

Book section · 2014 Cite

Implicit Moral Attitudes

Book section · 2014 Cite

Introduction: Memory in the Legal Context

Book section · January 24, 2013 Cite

Are Moral Judgments Unified?

Book section · 2013 Cite

What is Addiction?

Book section · 2013 Cite

intuitionism

Book section · January 1, 2013 Cite

Gert, Bernard (1934– )

Book section · January 1, 2013 Cite

Free Constrastivism

Book section · 2012 Cite

Introduction

Book section · January 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Experimental Ethics

Book section · 2011 Cite

Insanity Defenses

Book section · 2011 Cite

Moral Skepticism

Book section · 2011 Cite

Consequentialism

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Moral Intuition

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Moral Reasoning

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Lessons from Libet

Book section · 2010 Cite

Mackie’s Internalisms

Book section · 2009 Cite

Preventive War, What Is It Good For?

Book section · January 1, 2008 This chapter argues that although Bush's preventive war in Iraq is morally wrong, and his policy is too broad, some exceptional preventive wars can still be morally justified. It develops and defends a version of consequentialism about war. It then critici ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Book section · 2008 Cite

Introduction

Book section · 2008 Cite

Introduction

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Framing Moral Intuitions

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Abstract + Concrete = Paradox

Book section · 2008 Cite

R. M. Hare (1919-)

Book section · December 13, 2007 Full text Cite

Reflections on Reflection in Robert Audi's Moral Intuitionism

Book section · September 1, 2007 This chapter argues that Audi's views on moral intuitions, specifically concerning whether they can be justified without being based on inference, raise a number of questions Audi has yet to address. First, it asks, can moral intuitions be justified withou ... Full text Cite

Overcoming Christianity

Book section · 2007 Cite

Classy Pyrrhonism

Book section · May 1, 2006 This essay invokes a technical framework of contrast classes within which Pyrrhonians can accept (or deny) knowledge claims that are relativized to specific contrast classes, but avoid all unrelativized knowledge claims and all presuppositions about which ... Full text Cite

Introduction to Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Book section · May 1, 2006 Cite

Moral Intuitionism Meets Empirical Psychology

Book section · January 26, 2006 This chapter claims that recent developments in psychology and brain science cast considerable doubt on moral intuitionism. In arguing for this claim, it first develops a set of six principles concerning when non-moral beliefs require justifying beliefs to ... Full text Cite

Moral Dilemmas

Book section · 2006 Cite

Gert Contra Consequentialism

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Ought’ Implies ‘Can'

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Gert, Bernard

Book section · 2001 Cite

R. M. Hare

Book section · 2001 Cite

A Perspectival Theory of Law

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Impartiality

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Moral Skepticism

Book section · 1999 Cite

Marcus, Ruth Barcan

Book section · 1999 Cite

Moral Dilemmas

Book section · 1997 Cite

Moral Dilemmas and Rights

Book section · 1996 Cite

Moral Dilemmas

Book section · 1995 Cite

Intuitionism

Book section · 1992 Cite

Moral Dilemmas

Book section · 1992 Cite

The Value of Bad Grades

Book section · 1992 Cite