Law, Psychiatry, and Free Will

The concept of free will: philosophy, neuroscience and the law.

Various philosophical definitions of free will are first considered. The compatibilist definition, which says simply that acts are freely willed if they are not subject to constraints, is identified as much used in the legal system and essentially impervious to scientific investigation. A middle-ground "incompatibilist" definition, which requires that freely willed acts be consciously initiated...

Law and Psychiatry

a? . *n parts 2 and 3 the problems of criminal responsibility are reviewed, and the 'a J ^ave never read a better and more erudite criticism of the deficiencies of rj , M'Nahten rules in the light of modern psychiatric thought. We are taken 8nt up to modern times and the Durham decision of 1954 in the District of unibia is discussed in detail. J In the last part we are given a glimpse of the fu...

Psychiatry and Criminal Law

A study of Determinism and Free-will in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...

Law, Psychiatry, and Philosophical Analysis