Neuroimaging and Responsibility Assessments
Neuroethics 4 (1):35-49 (2011)
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Nicole A. Vincent
Delft University of Technology
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Could neuroimaging evidence help us to assess the degree of a person’s responsibility for a crime which we know that they committed? This essay defends an affirmative answer to this question. A range of standard objections to this high-tech approach to assessing people’s responsibility is considered and then set aside, but I also bring to light and then reject a novel objection—an objection which is only encountered when functional (rather than structural) neuroimaging is used to assess people’s responsibility.
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| Keywords | Moral responsibility Legal responsibility Capacity-theoretic conception of responsibility Capacitarian theory of responsibility Mental capacity Capacity responsibility Neuroimaging fMRI Modal fallacy Automatic functions Theory to the best explanation |
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| Reprint years | 2011 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12152-008-9030-8 |
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