Neuroscience and legal responsibility
By: edited by Nicole A. Vincent
Series: Oxford series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780199925605
Subjects: Neurosciences; Forensic neurology; Law; Psychological aspects
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nicole A. Vincent; title: Criminal common law compatibilism / Stephen J. Morse; title: What can neurosciences say about responsibility? : taking the distinction between theoretical and practical reason seriously / Anne Ruth Mackor; title: Irrationality, mental capacities and neuroscience / Jillian Craigie and Alicia Coram; title: Skepticism concerning human agency : sciences of the self vs. "voluntariness" in the law / Paul Sheldon Davies; title: The implications of heuristics and biases research on moral and legal responsibility : a case against the reasonable person standard / Leora Dahan-Katz; title: Moral responsibility and consciousness : two challenges, one solution / Neil Levy; title: Translating scientific evidence into the language of the "folk" : executive function as capacity-responsibility / Katrina L. Sifferd; title: Neuroscience, deviant appetites and the criminal law / Colin Gavaghan; title: Is psychopathy a mental disease? / Thomas Nadelhoffer & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; title: Addiction, choice, and disease : how voluntary is voluntary action in addiction? / Jeanette Kennett; title: How may neuroscience affect the way that the criminal courts deal with addicted offenders? / Wayne Hall & Adrian Carter; title: Enhancing responsibility / Nicole A. Vincent; title: Guilty minds in washed brains? : manipulation cases, excuses and the normative prerequisites of liberal legal orders / Christoph Bublitz & Reinhard Merkel.