{"product_id":"responsible-brains-neuroscience-law-and-human-culpability-paperback","title":"Responsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Hirstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatrina L. Sifferd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTyler K. Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us that what makes human beings responsible has to do with their minds and, in particular, the relationship between their minds and their actions. Yet the empirical connection is not necessarily obvious. The \"guilty mind\" is a core concept of criminal law, but if a defendant on trial for murder were found to have serious brain damage, which brain parts or processes would have to be damaged for him to be considered not responsible, or less responsible, for the crime? What mental illnesses would justify legal pleas of insanity? In \u003ci\u003eResponsible Brains\u003c\/i\u003e, philosophers William Hirstein, Katrina Sifferd, and Tyler Fagan examine recent developments in neuroscience that point to neural mechanisms of responsibility. Drawing on this research, they argue that evidence from neuroscience and cognitive science can illuminate and inform the nature of responsibility and agency. They go on to offer a novel and comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe authors' core hypothesis is that responsibility is grounded in the brain's prefrontal executive processes, which enable us to make plans, shift attention, inhibit actions, and more. The authors develop the executive theory of responsibility and discuss its implications for criminal law. Their theory neatly bridges the folk-psychological concepts of the law and neuroscientific findings.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hirstein is Professor of Philosophy at Elmhurst College, Illinois and the author of\u003ci\u003e Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatrina L. Sifferd is Professor of Philosophy at Elmhurst College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTyler K. Fagan is Lecturer in Philosophy at Elmhurst College.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750105317664,"sku":"9780262549271","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cf46838d5716cd1942d0fde0abbb25f3.webp?v=1779943087","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/responsible-brains-neuroscience-law-and-human-culpability-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}