| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy |
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Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
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| Contents |
Desert and the justification of punishment / John Martin Fischer -- Brute retributivism Incompatibilism and retributivism / Shaun Nichols -- Free will skepticism and criminal punishment / Derk Pereboom -- Why do we resist hard incompatibilism, thoughts on freedom and punishment / Michael Corrado -- Criminal common law compatibilism / Stephen Morse -- Neuroscience, normativity, and retributivism / Pardo & Patterson -- Cognitive neuroscience, moral responsibility, and punishment / Nancey Murphy -- Free will, science, and punishment / Alfred Mele -- The mind, the brain, and the law / Nadelhoffer et al. -- Moralistic punishment as a crude social insurance plan / Aharoni & Fridlund -- Punishing the addict: reflections on Gene Heyman / Neil Levy -- Free will, responsibility, and the punishment of criminals / Focquaert et al |
| Summary |
The twelve essays in this volume aim at providing philosophers neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to examine the cluster of related issues that will need to be addressed as scholars struggle to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Responsibility.
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Free will and determinism.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Free will and determinism
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Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Responsibility
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Social Welfare & Social Work.
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Social Sciences.
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Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nadelhoffer, Thomas, editor
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| LC no. |
2012029161 |
| ISBN |
0199332592 |
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9780199332595 |
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019977935X |
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9780199779352 |
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