Neuroscience Challenges Our Ideas About Responsibility

“Neuroscience is beginning to challenge some people’s notions about criminal behavior and what we should do about it. Determinism–the belief that all current and future events, actions, decisions, and behavior are caused by preceding events combined with the laws of nature–disputes long-standing beliefs about what it means to be responsible for one’s actions; some scholars assert the extreme view that humans are never responsible for any of their actions.”