M O R A L & C R I M I N A L R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
A N D N E U R O S C I E N C E
Monday 18 June – Tuesday 19 June

Supported by the AHRC, ‘Science in Culture’ Exploratory Award
Day 1, Monday June 18, Room STB3, Stewart House (basement)
12.00 Coffee
12.15 Introductions
12. 30 Stephen Morse (Pennsylvania)
Keynote: Neuroscience and criminal responsibility
2.00 Lunch
2.45 Rebecca Simpson (Manchester)
Philosophical problems with the partial defence of provocation: How neuroscience and behavioural genetics may assist
4.00 Coffee
4.15 Anneli Jefferson (Jülich)
To what extent can neuroscience inform our judgments of moral responsibility?
5.30 Close
7.00 Dinner (Location to be confirmed)
Dinner (Location to be confirmed)
Day 2, Tuesday June 19, Court Room, Senate House (first floor)
10.00 Sofia Jeppson (Stockholm)
Compatibilism and neuroscience
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Hannah Maslen (Oxford/Delft) and Imogen Goold (Oxford)
Cognitive enhancement: Implications for legal responsibility
12.45 Lunch
1.30 Markus Schlosser (Leiden)
Conscious will, reason-responsiveness, and moral responsibility
2.45 Coffee
3.00 Georgia-Martha Gkotsi (Lausanne)
Neuroscience in court: The criminal responsibility of the mentally ill
4.15 Close
***This workshop is invitation only***