What Patients With Behavioral-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Can Teach Us About Moral Responsibility
| Autor: | R. Ryan Darby, Judith G. Edersheim, Bruce H. Price |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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General Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Neuropsychology Disease medicine.disease Morality Determinism 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Free will Compatibilism medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Moral responsibility Psychology Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common Frontotemporal dementia |
| Zdroj: | AJOB Neuroscience. 7:193-201 |
| ISSN: | 2150-7759 2150-7740 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21507740.2016.1236044 |
| Popis: | Moral and legal responsibility is diminished in neuropsychiatric patients who lack the capacity to use reasoning to determine morally appropriate behavior. Patients with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), however, develop immoral behaviors as a result of their disease despite the ability to explicitly state that their behavior is wrong. In order to determine whether bvFTD patients should be held responsible for their immoral behavior, we begin by discussing the philosophical concepts of free will, determinism, and responsibility. Those who believe in both determinism and free will are called compatibilists. We argue that reason-responsiveness, a specific type of compatibilism, cannot fully determine responsibility in bvFTD patients if reason-responsiveness is considered to be a single, unified concept. Instead, we argue that several different neuropsychological capacities, including many that are impaired in bvFTD patients, contribute to a patient's ability to respond to certain reasons i... |
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