Neuroscience and legal responsibility
Embracing a broadly compatibilist approach - one according to which responsibility hinges on psychological features of agents not on metaphysical features of the universe - this volume's authors demonstrate that the behavioural and mind sciences may impact on legal responsibility practices in a range of different ways. For instance, by providing fresh insight into the nature of normal and pathological human agency, by offering updated medical and legal criteria for forensic practitioners as well as powerful new diagnostic and intervention tools and techniques with which to appraise and to alter minds, and by raising novel regulatory challenges
1 online resource (viii, 395 pages)
9780199925612, 9780199332939, 0199925615, 0199332932
859536653
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
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