Neuroimaging and Responsibility Assessments

作者：Vincent Nicole A^*

来源：Neuroethics, 2011, 4(1): 35-49.

DOI：10.1007/s12152-008-9030-8

• 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
• Roper v. Simmons [2005]

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.

• 出版日期2011-4