Autore
De Caro, Mario

Titolo
Colpevolezza e scienze cognitive
Periodico
Ragion pratica
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 54 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 71 - Pagina finale: 85

According to a long-standing legal tradition, culpability can be attributed to the perpetrator of a criminal action only if a corresponding criminal intention was present in that agent at the moment in which that agent committed the action. As is well known, however, this is not a way of determining a sufficient condition of culpability but only (with some provisos) a necessary condition. In this article, I analyse two issues – widely debated by philosophers and cognitive psychologists, but not very much by legal scholars – that make this discussion much more complex: the question of the so-called “deviant causal chainsµ and the thesis, often repeated today by philosophers and scientists, that the conscious mind is epiphenomenal.



SICI: 1720-2396(2020)54:1<71:CESC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1415/96864
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1415/96864

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