Many people think that free will is a foundation for just blame and punishment. The questions are whether this is true and whether deterministic neuroscience undermines traditional notions of criminal and civil responsibility if it conclusively demonstrates that human beings do not have free will. Is the claim, "My brain made me do it," valid? In this lecture, Prof. Stephen Morse will clarify these issues and explain how responsibility is possible in a deterministic universe.
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Stephen J. Morse, J.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at Penn. He works on problems of legal and moral responsibility and their compatibility with the materialist worldview of neuroscience. He is interested in the roles of neuroscience and behavioral science in explaining and excusing antisocial and criminal behavior.
