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Moral responsibility and mental illness : a case study

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Broome, Matthew R., Bortolotti, Lisa and Mameli, Matteo (2010) Moral responsibility and mental illness : a case study. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol.19 (No.2). pp. 179-187. doi:10.1017/S0963180109990442 ISSN 0963-1801.

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Abstract

Various authors have argued that progress in the neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric sciences might threaten the commonsense understanding of how the mind generates behavior, and, as a consequence, it might also threaten the commonsense ways of attributing moral responsibility, if not the very notion of moral responsibility. In the case of actions that result in undesirable outcomes (e.g., someone being harmed), the commonsense conception—which is reflected in sophisticated ways in the legal conception—tells us that there are circumstances in which the agent is entirely and fully responsible for the bad outcome (and deserves to be punished accordingly) and circumstances in which the agent is not at all responsible for the bad outcome (and thereby the agent does not deserve to be punished).

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Responsibility -- Case studies, Criminal liability -- Case studies, Offenders with mental disabilities -- Case studies
Journal or Publication Title: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0963-1801
Official Date: April 2010
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April 2010Published
Volume: Vol.19
Number: No.2
Number of Pages: 9
Page Range: pp. 179-187
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180109990442
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 3 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access: 3 December 2015
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC)
Grant number: AH/G002606/1 (AHRC)

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