Relating Neuroscience to Responsibility: Comments on Hirstein, Sifferd, and Fagan’s Responsible Brains

Michael S. Moore

doi:10.1007/s11572-021-09573-w

Relating Neuroscience to Responsibility: Comments on Hirstein, Sifferd, and Fagan’s Responsible Brains

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The article explores the agreements and disagreements between the author and the authors of Responsible Brains on howneuroscience relates to moral responsibility. The agreements are fundamental: neuroscience is not the harbinger of revolutionary revision of our views ofwhen persons are morally responsible for the harms that they cause. The disagreements are in the details of what is needed for neuroscience to be the helper(rather than the challeger) of the moral sciences.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	283-298
Number of pages	16
Journal	Criminal Law and Philosophy
Volume	16
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-021-09573-w
State	Published - Jul 2022

Keywords

Ability
Compatibilism
Consciousness
Determinism
Neuroscience
Physicalism

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Law

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