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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is an American philosopher specializing in ethics, epistemology, neuroethics, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of cognitive science. He is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

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Consequences, Action, and Intention as Factors in Moral Judgments: An fMRI Investigation (2006) (351)
Neuroprediction of future rearrest (2013) (216)
The Structure of Justification. (1995) (195)
Moral foundations vignettes: a standardized stimulus database of scenarios based on moral foundations theory (2015) (186)
The neuroscience of morality : emotion, brain disorders, and development (2008) (177)
Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule‐based Decision‐Making in Law and in Life (1992) (176)
The cognitive science of morality : intuition and diversity (2008) (163)
Framing moral intuitions. (2008) (151)
Sunday Drives and Shirking Responsibility In “ It ’ s Not My Fault : Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations (2005) (147)
Is Morality Unified? Evidence that Distinct Neural Systems Underlie Moral Judgments of Harm, Dishonesty, and Disgust (2011) (145)
`Ought' Conversationally Implies `Can' (1984) (145)
Can psychopathic offenders discern moral wrongs? A new look at the moral/conventional distinction. (2012) (142)
Moral Decision Making Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (2017) (137)
Neuromarketing: Ethical Implications of its Use and Potential Misuse (2017) (123)
Moral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments (2008) (116)
Neuroimages as Evidence in a Mens Rea Defense: No Impact (2011) (108)
Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, and Knowledge Attributions: an Empirical Study (2008) (99)
Can Neurological Evidence Help Courts Assess Criminal Responsibility? Lessons from Law and Neuroscience (2008) (90)
Adapting a Kidney Exchange Algorithm to Align with Human Values (2018) (79)
Moral Intuitionism Meets Empirical Psychology (2005) (77)
Conscious Will and Responsibility. A tribute to Benjamin Libet (2010) (77)
Begging the question (1999) (75)
Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law: Setting the Stage (2012) (67)
Perspectives on climate change : science, economics, politics, ethics (2005) (59)
Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology (1996) (58)
Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will (2013) (56)
Abnormal moral reasoning in complete and partial callosotomy patients (2010) (50)
Abstract + concrete = paradox. (2008) (49)
Readiness potentials driven by non-motoric processes (2016) (49)
Blame, not ability, impacts moral “ought” judgments for impossible actions: Toward an empirical refutation of “ought” implies “can” (2016) (48)
Modality, Morality and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus (2009) (43)
Neural basis of moral verdict and moral deliberation (2011) (42)
What Is Moral Epistemology (2006) (41)
5 Varieties of Moral Agency : Lessons from Autism ( and Psychopathy ) (2010) (41)
It's Not My (2005) (41)
Are moral judgments unified? (2014) (40)
The evolution of morality : adaptations and innateness (2008) (39)
A Contrastivist Manifesto (2008) (39)
The Disunity of Morality and Why it Matters to Philosophy (2012) (39)
Is moral phenomenology unified? (2008) (37)
Some Varieties of Particularism (1999) (34)
I’m Not the Person I Used to Be: The Self and Autobiographical Memories of Immoral Actions (2017) (33)
What’s Wrong with Joyguzzling? (2018) (33)
Intention, Temporal Order, and Moral Judgments (2008) (33)
Moral Skepticism and Justification (1996) (32)
An Empirical Refutation of ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’ (2016) (32)
What's wrong? Moral understanding in psychopathic offenders. (2014) (30)
‘Ought to have’ and ‘could have’ (1985) (30)
The truth of performatives (1994) (30)
What makes killing wrong? (2012) (29)
Neurolaw and Neuroprediction: Potential Promises and Perils (2012) (29)
God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist (2003) (29)
Be it ever so humble: Proposing a dual-dimension account and measurement of humility (2018) (29)
Expressivism and Embedding (2000) (28)
A Solution to Forrester's Paradox of Gentle Murder (1985) (27)
Moral Realisms and Moral Dilemmas (1987) (27)
SUBJECTIVE RIGHTNESS (2010) (26)
Memory and law (2012) (26)
The central role of disgust in disorders of food avoidance. (2019) (26)
Implicit moral evaluations: A multinomial modeling approach (2017) (25)
Wording effects in moral judgments (2010) (25)
Responsibility for forgetting (2019) (25)
When Do People Want AI to Make Decisions? (2018) (25)
Is psychopathy a mental disease (2013) (24)
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis (2020) (24)
Perspectives on Climate Change (2005) (23)
Hypnotizing Libet: Readiness potentials with non-conscious volition (2015) (23)
Scrupulous agents (2015) (22)
Handbook on Psychopathy and Law (2013) (22)
Moral psychology, Vol 1: The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness. (2008) (22)
A reason-based explanation for moral dumbfounding (2019) (20)
Morality, Normativity, and Society. (1996) (19)
Distinct neuronal patterns of positive and negative moral processing in psychopathy (2016) (19)
Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings with Commentary (1995) (19)
Predictive accuracy in the neuroprediction of rearrest (2014) (19)
MIXED‐UP META‐ETHICS1 (2009) (19)
A Defense of Modus Ponens (1986) (18)
Two Distinct Moral Mechanisms for Ascribing and Denying Intentionality (2015) (18)
How to Allow Conscientious Objection in Medicine While Protecting Patient Rights (2016) (17)
You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourself (When you Violate an Imperfect Moral Obligation) (2005) (17)
Some problems for Gibbard's norm-expressivism (1993) (17)
Are Addicts Responsible (2013) (17)
Subcomponents of psychopathy have opposing correlations with punishment judgments. (2013) (17)
Hemispheric Asymmetries during Processing of Immoral Stimuli (2010) (16)
Morality Without God (2009) (16)
Emotion and Reliability in Moral Psychology (2011) (16)
What is Addiction (2013) (15)
Bioprediction, biomarkers, and bad behavior: scientific, legal and ethical challenges (2013) (14)
Moral Dilemmas and ‘Ought and Ought Not’ (1987) (14)
Moral relativity and intuitionism (2002) (14)
Moral conformity in online interactions: rational justifications increase influence of peer opinions on moral judgments (2017) (13)
Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict (1989) (13)
Do Psychopaths Refute Internalism (2014) (13)
How strong is this obligation? An argument for consequentialism from concomitant variation (2009) (13)
Cognitive Enhancement in Courts (2011) (12)
An Argument for Consequentialism (1992) (12)
Is Goodness Without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics (2009) (12)
Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (2017) (11)
Moral Psychology, Volume 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2014) (11)
A defence of modus tollens (1990) (10)
Moral Psychology: Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2014) (10)
Brain Scans Go Legal (2006) (10)
Entrapment in the Net? (1998) (10)
Responsibility in Cases of Multiple Personality Disorder (2000) (9)
Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents (2020) (9)
Does Morality Have an Essence? (2012) (9)
Responsibility Without Freedom? Folk Judgements About Deliberate Actions (2019) (9)
Disgust Theory Through the Lens of Psychiatric Medicine (2020) (8)
From ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’ in Moral Epistemology (2000) (8)
The Disunity of Morality (2016) (8)
You Can't Lose What you Ain't Never Had: A Reply to Marquis on Abortion (1999) (8)
Word Meaning in Legal Interpretation (2005) (7)
Brain Images as Evidence in the Criminal Law (2011) (7)
Lessons from Libet (2010) (7)
Neurolaw and consciousness detection (2011) (7)
Computational ethics (2022) (6)
Determined to Be Humble? Exploring the Relationship Between Belief in Free Will and Humility (2018) (6)
Mackie's Internalisms (2010) (6)
Preventive War—What Is It Good For? (2007) (6)
Valence framing effects on moral judgments: A meta-analysis (2021) (6)
Rationality, rules, and ideals : critical essays on Bernard Gert's moral theory (2002) (6)
Contrastive mental causation (2019) (5)
Abnormal fronto-limbic engagement in incarcerated stimulant users during moral processing (2016) (5)
MODERATE CLASSY PYRRHONIAN MORAL SCEPTICISM (2008) (5)
Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity (Index) (2007) (5)
Weak and Strong Judicial Review (2003) (5)
AI Methods in Bioethics (2020) (5)
Against Some Recent Arguments for ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’: Reasons, Deliberation, Trying, and Furniture (2019) (5)
That lonesome whistle: a puzzle for the sensorimotor model of perceptual experience (2006) (5)
Moral Knowledge New Readings (1996) (4)
Implicit Morality: A Methodological Survey (2014) (4)
A Case Study in Neuroscience and Responsibility (2012) (4)
How AI Can Aid Bioethics (2021) (4)
Making moral principles suit yourself (2021) (4)
Moral framing effects within subjects (2021) (4)
Good scientific practice in EEG and MEG research: Progress and perspectives (2022) (4)
MORAL EXPERIENCE AND JUSTIFICATION (1991) (4)
Are Proselfs More Deceptive and Hypocritical? Social Image Concerns in Appearing Fair (2018) (4)
Moral conformity and its philosophical lessons (2020) (4)
Blame, not ability, impacts moral â€œoughtâ€• judgments for impossible actions: Toward an empirical refutation of â€œoughtâ€• implies â€œcanâ€• (2016) (4)
Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Measuring Influence of AI 'Assessments' on Moral Decision-Making (2020) (4)
Moral Perception and Heuristics (2009) (4)
On Primoratz's Definition of Terrorism (1991) (4)
11 Dissecting the Readiness Potential An Investigation of the Relationship between Readiness Potentials , Conscious Willing , and Action (2014) (4)
What’s in a contrast class? (2002) (4)
What is Consequentialism? A Reply to Howard-Snyder (2001) (3)
Reflections on Reflection in Robert Audi's Moral Intuitionism (2007) (3)
A Light Theory of Color (2002) (3)
How Religion Undermines Compromise (2013) (3)
Moral Disagreements with Psychopaths (2014) (3)
Introduction to Pyrrhonian Skepticism (2004) (3)
Recusal and Bush v. Gore (2002) (3)
Experience and Foundationalism in Audi's The Architecture of Reason (2003) (3)
For Goodness' Sake (2003) (3)
Do framing effects debunk moral beliefs? (2019) (2)
“MPP, RIP” RIP (1999) (2)
Dissecting the Readiness Potential (2014) (2)
The Mind, the Brain, and the Law (2013) (2)
Free will without consciousness? (2022) (2)
Does Neuroscience Undermine Morality (2018) (2)
A resolution of a paradox of promising (1987) (2)
Promises which cannot be kept (1988) (2)
Some common fallacies in arguments from M/EEG data (2021) (2)
Some ethics of deep brain stimulation (2020) (2)
ALFRED R. MELE'S EFFECTIVE INTENTIONS: THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS WILL (2010) (1)
A philosophical indrocuction to constitutional interpretation (1993) (1)
Robert Audi: Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character. (1999) (1)
Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics (2012) (1)
Personality Disorders and Responsibility: Learning from Peay (2011) (1)
Nihilism and Scepticism About Moral Obligations (1995) (1)
Scrupulous Characters and Mental Illness (2016) (1)
20 YEARS OF MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1991) (1)
The need for feasible compromises on conscientious objection: response to Card (2019) (1)
How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve? (2021) (1)
Which biopsychosocial view of mental illness? (2020) (1)
How Stable are Moral Judgments? (2022) (1)
Where is the golden mean of intellectual humility? Comments on Ballantyne (2023) (1)
Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedom (2022) (1)
Introduction: Deviance, Classification, and Bioprediction (2013) (1)
REPLIES TO DREIER AND MCNAUGHTON (2008) (1)
Indecision Modeling (2020) (1)
Free will and moral responsibility (2014) (1)
Are Moral Beliefs Truth‐Apt? (2006) (0)
Alternatives and defaults: Knobe's two explanations of how moral judgments influence intuitions about intentionality and causation (2010) (0)
Character and Virtue (2019) (0)
A resolution of a paradox of promising (1987) (0)
What we need to define is the weakest version of moral intuitionism (2005) (0)
Corrigendum to “Implicit moral evaluations: A multinomial modeling approach” [Cognition 158 (2017) 224–241] (2018) (0)
Classy Moral Pyrrhonism (2006) (0)
Standardized Stimulus Database of Scenarios (2016) (0)
Précis of Moral Scepticisms (2008) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Are Any Moral Beliefs Justified (2006) (0)
Tony Honoré, Responsibility and Fault (2001) (0)
How to Avoid Deviance (in Logic) (2002) (0)
Albert A. Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech Witkowski, eds., Mythos and Logos. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004, 268 pp.(indexed). ISBN 90-420-1020, $73.00 (pb). Kevin Bales, Disposable People. Berkley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004, 298 pp.(indexed). ISBN 0-520-24384-6, $17.95 (pb) (2005) (0)
Follow the Bouncing Ball : Music , Motion , and Emotion (2010) (0)
Visually-evoked readiness potentials reflect anticipation and/or preparation of future movements rather than acts of will (2011) (0)
TEARS OF JOY AND SORROW : WHY ONLY PEOPLE CAN CRY Brain Scans on Trial Mental Power Boost Born to Cooperate Voices in Your Head Surviving Adolescence (2007) (0)
EPILOGUE: (1994) (0)
Responsibility (2019) (0)
Replies to Copp, Timmons, and Railton (2008) (0)
Introduction: Memory in the Legal Context (2013) (0)
Mental Illness (2019) (0)
Are Any Moral Beliefs True (2006) (0)
Why We Laugh (2011) (0)
Is Nature Enough? A Symposium Exploring the Ethics of Human Enhancement (2010) (0)
Explanation and Justification in Moral Epistemology (1999) (0)
R. M. Hare (1919 (2007) (0)
Certain prosocial motives limit redistribution aimed at equality. (2022) (0)
THE WRONGFUL INTENTIONS PRINCIPLE (1991) (0)
WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG and DAVID SPARROW A LIGHT THEORY OF COLOR (2002) (0)
Concurrent Contents: Recent and Classic References at the Interface of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (2011) (0)
In Contrast with What (2006) (0)
Moral Judgments (2019) (0)
Introduction (2009) (0)
DISCUSSION NOTES A RESOLUTION OF A PARADOX OF PROMISING (2006) (0)
What’s Wrong with Joyguzzling? (2018) (0)
The Brain Buffer: How Neuroscience Affects People’s Views of Criminal Wrongdoers (2011) (0)
Which Agent? Questions for Schechter (2022) (0)
The Memory of Jurors (2012) (0)
Replies to Hough, Baumann and Blaauw (2008) (0)
Against Some Recent Arguments for ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’: Reasons, Deliberation, Trying, and Furniture (2018) (0)
Moral Responsibility without (Some Kinds of) Freedom (2022) (0)
An argument for descriptivism (1999) (0)
And fiery Cushman (2010) (0)
Defining Addiction (2018) (0)
Using Human Subjects ’ Judgments for Automated Moral Decision Making (2017) (0)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2019) (0)
Scrupulosity as a Form of OCD (2019) (0)
Introduction: Moral Psychiatry (2019) (0)
What makes killing wrong?: and why it matters (2012) (0)
The Memory of Jurors: Enhancing Trial Performance (2012) (0)
Translation and validation of the Moral Foundations Vignettes (MFVs) for the Portuguese language in a Brazilian sample (2020) (0)
Cases (1960) (0)
Partisanship, humility, and epistemic polarisation (2020) (0)
How does inequality affect our sense of moral obligation? (2020) (0)
Responsibility for forgetting (2018) (0)
Book Review (1999) (0)
Perplexity in the Moral Life: Philosophical and Theological Considerations.@@@Moral Dilemmas. (1992) (0)
Mechanisms of Moral Decision Making (2018) (0)

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