Neurosurgery for psychopaths? The problems of empathy and neurodiversity
American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (3):166-168 (2016)
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I argue that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a bad approach for incarcerated psychopaths for two reasons. First, given what we know about psychopathy, empathy, and DBS, it is unlikely to function as an effective treatment for the moral problems that characterize psychopathy. Second, considerations of neurodiversity speak against seeing psychopathy as a mental illness in the first place.
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| Keywords | Psychopathy Neurosurgery empathy neurodiversity deep brain stimulation |
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| DOI | 10.1080/21507740.2016.1218387 |
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Psychopathy, Autism, and Basic Moral Emotions: Evidence for Sentimentalist Constructivism.Erick Ramirez - forthcoming - In Serife Tekin & Robyn Bluhm (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. Bloomsbury.
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