Neuroscience and legal responsibility

Neuroscience and legal responsibility / edited by Nicole A Vincent.

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...

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Other Authors: Vincent, Nicole A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
Subjects:
Law > Psychological aspects.
Neurosciences.
Forensic neurology.
Social control.
Forensic sciences.
Life sciences.
Medical personnel.
Physical sciences.
Sociology.
Criminology.
Social sciences.
Medical care.
Psychology.
Medical jurisprudence.
behavioral sciences.
forensic science.
biological sciences.
physical sciences.
sociology.
criminology.
social sciences.
psychology.
forensic medicine.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Sociology
Social sciences
Social control
Psychology
Physical sciences
Medical personnel
Medical jurisprudence
Medical care
Life sciences
Forensic sciences
Criminology
Forensic neurology
Law > Psychological aspects
Neurosciences
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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.

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