Author： Vincent Nicole
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 1874-5490
Source： Neuroethics, Vol.4, Iss.1, 2011-04, pp. : 35-49
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Abstract
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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