The idea that mental states cause actions is a basic premise of criminal law. Blame and responsibility presuppose that criminal acts are products of the defendant’s mind. Yet, the assumption that mental causation exists is at odds with physicalism, the widely shared worldview that “everything is physical.” Outside of law, there is probably no field of secular study in which one can seriously assert that unseen nonmaterial forces can cause physical events. But if physicalism is true then a fundamental premise of modern criminal justice must be false, namely, that criminals deserve punishment because their crimes are the products of their criminal minds. Efforts to reconcile mind-based theories of criminal responsibility with physicalism enco...
Criminal law has adopted the folk psychological view of human agency. Under this view, voluntary act...
Rapid technological advancements such as fMRI have led to the rise of neuroscientific discoveries. C...
This chapter argues that the folk-psychological model of the person and responsibility is not challe...
The idea that mental states cause actions is a basic premise of criminal law. Blame and responsibili...
Mental causation is a foundational assumption of modern criminal justice. The law takes it for grant...
A defendant is criminally responsible for his action only if he is shown to have engaged in a guilty...
Mental causation is a foundational assumption of modern criminal justice. The law takes it for grant...
Our understanding of folk and scientific psychology often informs the law’s conclusions regarding qu...
Our understanding of folk and scientific psychology often informs the law’s conclusions regarding qu...
A defendant is criminally responsible for his action only if he is shown to have engaged in a guilty...
The law remains reluctant of joining forces with neuroscience to better understand human behaviour d...
This chapter will argue that the criminal law is most compatible with a specific theory regarding th...
In this chapter, we explore the potential influence that advances in neuroscience may have on legal ...
Various authors debate the question of whether neuroscience is relevant to criminal responsibility. ...
Modern criminal justice presupposes that persons are not morally equal. On the contrary, those who d...
Criminal law has adopted the folk psychological view of human agency. Under this view, voluntary act...
Rapid technological advancements such as fMRI have led to the rise of neuroscientific discoveries. C...
This chapter argues that the folk-psychological model of the person and responsibility is not challe...
The idea that mental states cause actions is a basic premise of criminal law. Blame and responsibili...
Mental causation is a foundational assumption of modern criminal justice. The law takes it for grant...
A defendant is criminally responsible for his action only if he is shown to have engaged in a guilty...
Mental causation is a foundational assumption of modern criminal justice. The law takes it for grant...
Our understanding of folk and scientific psychology often informs the law’s conclusions regarding qu...
Our understanding of folk and scientific psychology often informs the law’s conclusions regarding qu...
A defendant is criminally responsible for his action only if he is shown to have engaged in a guilty...
The law remains reluctant of joining forces with neuroscience to better understand human behaviour d...
This chapter will argue that the criminal law is most compatible with a specific theory regarding th...
In this chapter, we explore the potential influence that advances in neuroscience may have on legal ...
Various authors debate the question of whether neuroscience is relevant to criminal responsibility. ...
Modern criminal justice presupposes that persons are not morally equal. On the contrary, those who d...
Criminal law has adopted the folk psychological view of human agency. Under this view, voluntary act...
Rapid technological advancements such as fMRI have led to the rise of neuroscientific discoveries. C...
This chapter argues that the folk-psychological model of the person and responsibility is not challe...