Ethics

Amherst NeuroLaw Roundtable (Tovino)

By Stacey Tovino

Amherst College's Austin Sarat, Martha Umphrey, John Servos, Jan Dizard, Anthony Bishop, Lawrence Douglas, and Steve George hosted a wonderful "'NeuroLaw': What Neuroscience Offers to Law" roundtable at Amherst's Alumni House on March 1, 2008.  Despite wind delays at O'Hare and snow delays on the East Coast, Joshua Greene (Harvard), Hank Greely (Stanford), Stephen Morse (Pennsylvania), and Owen Jones (Vanderbilt) safely arrived in Amherst as late as 2 a.m. and spoke on "Dueling Dualisms: How Neuroscience May Change the Way We Think about Moral and Legal Responsibility," "Neuroscience and Criminal Law: Beyond Responsibility," "Determinism & the Death of Folk Psychology: Two Challenges to Responsibility from Neuroscience," and "Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment," respectively.  I concluded by addressing some of the more riveting implications of advances in functional neuroimaging for public and private insurance coverage disputes and Social Security Disability determinations.  A warm 'Thank You' to Austin Sarat for organizing the event.

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).