The future of punishment /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nadelhoffer, Thomas (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:	Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
Subjects:	Criminal justice, Administration of > Moral and ethical aspects. Punishment > Moral and ethical aspects. Responsibility. Free will and determinism. Responsabilité. Libre arbitre et déterminisme. Criminal justice, Administration of > Moral and ethical aspects Free will and determinism Punishment > Moral and ethical aspects Responsibility Social Welfare & Social Work. Social Sciences. Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.