“The Neuroscience of Responsibility”—Workshop Report by Nicole A Vincent, Pim Haselager and Gert-Jan Lokhorst has been published in the current issue of Neuroethics:
Abstract: This is a report on the 3-day workshop “The Neuroscience of Responsibility” that was held
in the Philosophy Department at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands during February
11th–13th, 2010. The workshop had 25 participants from The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, UK, USA,
Canada and Australia, with expertise in philosophy,neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and law. Its
aim was to identify current trends in neurolaw research related specifically to the topic of responsibility,
and to foster international collaborative research on this topic. The workshop agenda was
constructed by the participants at the start of each day by surveying the topics of greatest interest and
relevance to participants. In what follows, we summarize (1) the questions which participants
identified as most important for future research in this field, (2) the most prominent themes that
emerged from the discussions, and (3) the two main international collaborative research project
plans that came out of this meeting.
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