How have developments in neuroscience changed the way we approach the concepts of free will and culpability?

Michael S. Moore will discuss these issues in his lecture, “Mechanical Brains and Responsible Choices: Challenges of Neuroscience to Responsibility.”

Join us for The William H. Timbers ’37 Lecture, this Wednesday, October 8^th in Rockefeller 003 at 4:30pm.

Michael S. Moore currently holds the only University-level chair at the University of Illinois’ three campuses, the Walgreen Chair. He is also the Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University. He has previously taught at Penn, Berkeley, San Diego, USC, ANU, Virginia, Stanford, Northwestern, and others. His research interests have had as one of their centers the issues related to moral responsibility. Five of his seven books (including the most recent, Causation and Responsibility, OUP 2009, paper 2010) have been devoted to these issues. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Research Project and Chair of its Intentions and Decisions research group; he also lectures from time to time at the Neuroscience Seminar of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.