Patrick Haggard - Free Will and Moral Responsibility

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Is free will required for moral responsibility? If a person with a brain tumor breaks the law, should that person be judged by lower standards? It’s a slippery slope, because if a legal defense is based on a ‘my brain did it, not me’ theory, and if it holds, law enforcement will suffer. Our jails would be less crowded, but our streets would teem with criminals.

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Patrick Neville Haggard, FBA, is a cognitive neuroscientist and academic. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Haggard completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then spent a year as a Harkness Fellow at Yale University.

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