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SUMMARY:Neuroprediction and the law - Raj Patel (Department of History and
  Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Dr Katherine Bowers
DESCRIPTION:Debates surrounding the use of prediction in criminal punishme
 nt usually turn on differing views about the appropriate jurisprudential r
 ole of equality and proportionality. Views about the appropriate role of e
 quality and proportionality play out in the ‘classic debate’ between r
 etributivism and consequentialism. Therefore\, whether prediction in crimi
 nal punishment is permissible turns on whether one subscribes to retributi
 vism or consequentialism as the appropriate theory of punishment. This tal
 k goes through some of the more recent developments in neuroscience and ne
 uroprediction\, and asks how these developments bear on traditional jurisp
 rudential concerns.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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