Steven Douglas Smith (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted Science and the Person: A Complacent Reflection on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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This short essay, written to be presented at a conference at William and Mary on “Law and Human Agency,” argues that developments in neuroscience, however impressive and valuable, do not negate or seriously threaten either the traditional philosophical debates about the “mind-body problem,” free will, or personal identity or the “everyday view of the person” that is assumed in law.
Recommended.