Neurointerventions and the Law

Nicole A Vincent, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at University of Technology Sydney. She is also an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, and an Affiliate Member of its Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics. She has published widely in neuroethics, neurolaw, philosophy of tort and criminal law, ethics, and political philosophy. Her current work also engages with topics in the philosophy and ethics of emerging technologies, futures, feminism, and gender studies. Thomas Nadelhoffer, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the College of Charleston, an affiliate member of the psychology department, and a roster faculty member in the neuroscience program. He has edited The Future of Punishment (Oxford University Press 2013) and co-edited Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings (Wiley-Blackwell 2010). He has also published widely on topics ranging from action theory, free will, moral psychology, neuroethics, criminal law, psychopathology, and punishment. Allan McCay, PhD teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program, and is a member of the Management Committee of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School. He is also an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics at Macquarie University. His research interests include neurolaw, free will and punishment, and legal and ethical issues related to emerging technologies. He co-edited Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives with Michael Sevel (Routledge 2019).

Contributors

1. Law Viewed Through the Lens of Neurointerventions
Nicole A Vincent, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Allan McCay

PART I. CONCEPTUAL, ETHICAL, AND JURISPRUDENTIAL ISSUES

2. Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle
Neil Levy

3. Why Means Matter: Legally Relevant Differences Between Direct and Indirect Interventions into Other Minds
Jan Christoph Bublitz

4. Neuroprosthetics, Behavior Control, and Criminal Responsibility
Walter Glannon

5. Is There Anything Wrong With Using AI Implantable Brain Devices to Prevent Convicted Offenders from Reoffending?
Frédéric Gilbert and Susan Dodds

6. Offering Neurointerventions to Offenders With Cognitive-Emotional Impairments: Ethical and Criminal Justice Aspects
Farah Focquaert, Kristof Van Assche, and Sigrid Sterckx

7. Diversion Courts, Traumatic Brain Injury, and American Vets
Valerie Gray Hardcastle

8. Neurobionic Revenge Porn and the Criminal Law: Brain DL Computer Interfaces and Intimate Image Abuse
Allan McCay

PART II. PUNISHING PEOPLE

9. Folk Jurisprudence and Neurointervention: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
Thomas Nadelhoffer, Daniela Goya- Tocchetto, Jennifer Cole Wright, and Quinn McGuire
10. Judicious Use of Neuropsychiatric Evidence When Sentencing Offenders With Addictive Behaviors: Implications for Neurointerventions
Andrew Dawson, Jennifer Chandler, Colin Gavaghan, Wayne Hall, and Adrian Carter

PART III. HEALING PEOPLE

11. "It Will Help You Repent": Why the Communicative Theory of Punishment Requires the Provision of Medications to Offenders With ADHD
William Bülow

12. Is It Really Ethical to Prescribe Antiandrogens to Sex Offenders to Decrease Their Risk of Recidivism?
Christopher James Ryan

13. Chemical Castration as Punishment
Katrina L. Sifferd

14. Foundational Facts for Legal Responsibility: Human Agency and the Aims of Restorative Neurointerventions
Paul Sheldon Davies

PART IV. CHANGING PEOPLE

15. Make Me Gay: What Neurointerventions Tell Us About Sexual Orientation and Why It Matters for the Law
Andrew Vierra

PART V. ENHANCING PEOPLE

16. Neuroenhancement, Coercion, and Neo- Luddism
Alexandre Erler

17. Neurointerventions and Business Law: On the Legal and Moral Issues of Neurotechnology in Business and How They Differ From the Criminal Law Context
Patrick D. Hopkins and Harvey L. Fiser

Index