Neuroscience and legal responsibility /
"How should neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral genetics impact legal responsibility practices? Recent findings from these fields are sometimes claimed to threaten the moral foundations of legal responsibility practices by revealing that determinism, or something like it, is true. On this...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013
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| Series: | Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- Law and neuroscience : historical context / Nicole A. Vincent
- Common criminal law compatibilism / Stephen J. Morse
- What can neurosciences say about responsibility? Taking the distinction between theoretical and practical reason seriously / Anne Ruth Mackor
- Irrationality, mental capacities and neuroscience / Jillian Craigie and Alicia Coram
- Skepticism concerning human agency : sciences of the self vs. "voluntariness" in the law / Paul Sheldon Davies
- The implications of heuristics and biases research on moral and legal responsibility : a case against the reasonable person standard / Leora Dahan-Katz
- Moral responsibility and consciousness : two challenges, one solution / Neil Levy
- Translating scientific evidence into the language of the "folk" : executive function as capacity-responsibility / Katrina L. Sifferd
- Neuroscience, deviant appetites and the criminal law / Colin Gavaghan
- Is psychopathy a mental disease? / Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Addiction, choice, and disease : how voluntary is voluntary action in addiction? / Jeanette Kennett
- How may neuroscience affect the way that the criminal courts deal with addicted offenders? / Wayne Hall and Adrian Carter
- Enhancing responsibility / Nicole A. Vincent
- Guilty minds in washed brains? Manipulation cases, excuses and the limits of neuroscientific excuses in liberal legal orders / Christoph Bublitz and Reinhard Merkel