Mechanical Choices
Title | Mechanical Choices PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Moore |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 613 |
Release | 2020-05-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 019086401X |
Mechanical Choices details the intimate connection that exists between morality and law: the morality we use to blame others for their misdeeds and the criminal law that punishes them for these misdeeds. This book shows how both law and morality presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just reasons. It then shows how neuroscience is commonly taken to challenge these fundamental psychological assumptions. Such challenges--four in number--are distinguished from each other by the different neuroscientific facts from which they arise: the fact that human choices are caused by brain events; the fact that those choices don't cause the actions that are their objects but are only epiphenomenal to those choices; the fact that those choices are identical to certain physical events in the brain; and the fact that human subjects are quite fallible in their knowledge of what they are doing and why. The body of this book shows how such challenges are either based on faulty facts or misconceived as to the relevance of such facts to responsibility. The book ends with a detailed examination of the neuroscience of addiction, an examination which illustrates how neuroscience can help rather than challenge both law and morality in their quest to accurately define excuses from responsibility.
On Mozart
Title | On Mozart PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Morris |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1994-11-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521476614 |
A collection of essays which explore Mozart from various perspectives, suggesting the complexity of his character and his achievement.
The Century Dictionary
Title | The Century Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 896 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN |
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Title | The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | William Dwight Whitney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 916 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | |
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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Title | A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles PDF eBook |
Author | James Augustus Henry Murray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1700 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary
Title | The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 902 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Atlases |
ISBN |
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney
Title | The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney PDF eBook |
Author | William Dwight Whitney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 900 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Atlases |
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