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Neuroscience and legal responsibility
Title:
Neuroscience and legal responsibility
Author:
Vincent, Nicole A.
ISBN:
9780199925612

9780199332939
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 395 pages)
Series:
Oxford series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy

Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
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.
Abstract:
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.
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