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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262349277
An examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility. When we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us that what makes human beings responsible has to do with their minds and, in particular, the relationship between their minds and their actions. Yet the empirical connection is not necessarily obvious. The “guilty mind” is a core concept of criminal law, but if a defendant on trial for murder were found to have serious brain damage, which brain parts or processes would have to be damaged for him to be considered not responsible, or less responsible, for the crime? What mental illnesses would justify legal pleas of insanity? In Responsible Brains , philosophers William Hirstein, Katrina Sifferd, and Tyler Fagan examine recent developments in neuroscience that point to neural mechanisms of responsibility. Drawing on this research, they argue that evidence from neuroscience and cognitive science can illuminate and inform the nature of responsibility and agency. They go on to offer a novel and comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility. The authors' core hypothesis is that responsibility is grounded in the brain's prefrontal executive processes, which enable us to make plans, shift attention, inhibit actions, and more. The authors develop the executive theory of responsibility and discuss its implications for criminal law. Their theory neatly bridges the folk-psychological concepts of the law and neuroscientific findings.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262349277
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 December 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11262.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262349277