Instructor: Walter Sinnot-Armstrong

Biography: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and attended the Hotchkiss School, Amherst College (BA 1977), and Yale University (PhD 1982). He taught at Dartmouth College 1981-2009 and at Duke University since 2010.Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University with secondary appointments in Duke's Law School and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He has served as co-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association.Sinnott-Armstrong has published eight books, 21 edited collections, and over 250 articles and chapters in leading venues, including top journals in psychology, law, and philosophy. His research has addressed a wide variety of central issues in applied ethics, empirical moral psychology and neuroscience, epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of law, religion, and psychiatry. His current focus is on moral artificial intelligence, political polarization, and various topics in moral psychology and brain science, including free will, consciousness, and moral responsibility. His popular trade books include Morality Without God?, Think Again: How to Reason and Argue, and Moral AI and How We Get There (with Jana Schaich Borg and Vincent Conitzer).Sinnott-Armstrong co-teaches a Massive Open Online Course, Think Again, on the Coursera platform with over a million students registered. He co-directs Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy, which trains philosophers in neuroscience and neuroscientists in philosophy. He is widely sought as a speaker on a wide variety of topics to both academic and public audiences.

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Osher at Dartmouth 2026 Summer Lecture Series, How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming America? Lecture 6

The Osher Institute at Dartmouth is offering its summer lecture via livestream to Osher colleagues across the nation. Lecture 6 is 'Morality, Ethics, Equality, Justice, and the Need for Regulation.' The session begins with the lecture, is followed by a half-hour break, then resumes with Q&A.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, Synchronous Online