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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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Thalia Wheatley is an associate professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.
Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
Watch more videos on free will and morality: https://shorturl.at/ocu5h
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.
Support the show with a tax-deductible donation to Closer To Truth of any amount: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq
Thalia Wheatley is an associate professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.
Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
