Brains invites an early career philosopher (graduate student, post-doc, or person who earned their PhD in the past five years) to act as a commentator for our upcoming symposium on an article appearing in the journal Neuroethics. The symposia will be similar to ones we have run the past two years on …
FYI, this post went up a few weeks ago. It seems like a great opportunity for philosophers interested in philosophy of neuroscience and law. Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is creating a new interdisciplinary Neuroethics Program, a cooperative venture of the Department of Philosophy, the Neuroscience Institute, the Department …
My colleague William Hirstein just posted a very interesting review of the way in which neuroscience might inform our understanding of art on his Psychology Today blog here.
This article in the New York Times caught my attention yesterday, partly because just a few weeks ago I commented on paper at the Central APA meeting on the punishment of late stage demented offenders: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dementia-among-aging-criminals.html The number of prisoners in the US with dementia is on the rise. The …
Bill Hirstein and I have just submitted a paper to the SPP on the criminal culpability of successful vs. unsuccessful psychopaths, and I’m hoping to generate a bit of discussion on the distinction.Gao and Raine recently published a review of studies distinguishing the two populations within five types of samples: …
