Paradigms of Mens Rea:
the Voluntariness Criterion in the Criminal Law
Organized by Dennis Patterson and Sofia Moratti
Conference Program
Day 1
11.00
Unconscious Mens Rea
Unconscious Mens Rea
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst, Illinois
12.30 Lunch
14.00
Nothing But a Pack of Neurons.
Responsible Reductionism About the Mental States that Measure Moral Culpability
Nothing But a Pack of Neurons.
Responsible Reductionism About the Mental States that Measure Moral Culpability
Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, Co-director of the Program in Law and Philosophy
University of Illinois
Day 2
10.00
Structural yet Changeable? Implications of Cognitive Neuroscience for Assessing Responsibility
Professor of Philosophy
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
11.00 Coffee break
11.15
Inevitable Mens Rea and Legal Insanity in the Age of Neuroscience
Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology in Law and Psychiatry, Associate Director Center for Neuroscience and Society
UPenn
12.30 Lunch
14.00
Roundtable with the speakers and:
Michael S. Pardo
Professor of Law
The University of Alabama School of Law
Dennis Patterson
Law Department, EUI and Law School, Rutgers