Determinism, neuroscience and responsibility

Fears that new scientific advances on the mind and the brain which establish that behaviour is determined by causes in one’s mind/brain and/or various past and present internal and external environments will undermine the attribution of legal responsibility are misplaced. Taking responsibility to inhere where conduct reflects upon an individual and where, properly understood, the individual could have done otherwise, determinism, operating in the right sort of way, should be embraced as a condition for responsibility

Attribution · Compatibilism · Determinism · Epistemology · Free will · Moral responsibility · sort · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Computer Science · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Criminal Liability and Criminal Defenses

  Open Access•Gerry Ferguson•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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• The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law

  Jules L Coleman, Kenneth Einar Himma et al.•The Oxford Handbook Of…•2004

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• Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility

  Harry G Frankfurt•The Journal of Philosophy•1969

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• An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

  David Hume, Tom L Beauchamp•An Enquiry Concerning Human…•1748

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• The Concept of Mind

  Gilbert Ryle•Theories of Mind•2006

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• Responsible Believers

  Mark Leon, Sherwood J B Sugden•The Monist•2002

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• Modern Philosophy

  F W Garforth, Frank Garforth et al.•British Journal of Educational…•1995

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