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Tag Archives: Criminal Responsibility

Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will

15 January 2018by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]

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Hope or Hype? Neuroscience & Criminal Law

7 August 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Stephen J. Morse The Neuroethics Blog The discovery of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 1991, which permits non-invasive imaging of brain function, and the wide availability of scanners for research […]

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Why Your Robot Car Should Ignore You

9 June 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman Nautilus In 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit. Google’s newest driverless car prototype had no steering wheel and no brakes. […]

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For People Raised in Chaos, Risk-Taking (and Law Breaking) is Hardwired

10 December 2015by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Matthew Hutson Nautilus Robin Marvel was never supposed to succeed. By the time she was a teenager she’d watched her mother be violently beaten by her father and a […]

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Brain Scans in the Courtroom

1 December 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andreas Kuersten The Scientist A group of men exit a city hotel and begin making their way to a waiting car. As they approach the vehicle, another man opens […]

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Responsibility for Intentions or Outcomes?

10 November 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Claire Creffield Nautilus The awful truth is that the degree to which we are blamed for relatively minor wrongdoings often depends not on the wrongdoings themselves, but on chance […]

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A Quest to Map the Human Brain

16 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Gareth Cook The New York Times Magazine In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade earlier, with a Ph.D. in theoretical […]

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