This document is intended to be a review of legal and psychiatric factors and to give practical guidance and assistance in the performance of psychiatric disability evaluations. It was developed by forensic psychiatrists who routinely conduct…
Papers in Philosophy of Mind
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Research by Siminoff and colleagues reveals that many lay people in Ohio classify legally living persons in irreversible coma or persistent vegetative state (PVS) as dead that additional respondents, although classifying such patients as living,…
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In songbirds, as in mammals, basal ganglia-forebrain circuits are necessary for the learning and production of complex motor behaviors; however, the precise role of these circuits remains unknown. It has recently been shown that a basal…
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Ethical dilemmas are found throughout the daily work of C-L psychiatrists. Unfortunately, most psychiatrists have no more training in ethics than their nonpsychiatric colleagues. Psychiatric consults spurred by ethical dilemmas can provoke anxiety…
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On what science tells us about the experience of bats, birds, and others. Why a movie of bat-experience isn't good enough - because of the inseparability of intentionality and experience. Science can do OK.
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The main goal of this paper is to describe a new graphical structure called `Bayesian causal maps' to represent and analyze domain knowledge of experts. A Bayesian causal map is a causal map, i.e., a network-based representation of an expert's…
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established therapy for Parkinson's Disease and is being investigated as a treatment for chronic depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and for facilitating functional recovery of patients in minimally conscious…
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This book first appeared in 1925. The basic principles of relativity have not changed since then, but both the theory and its applications have been much extended, and some revision has been necessary for the second and subsequent editions. For the…
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Introduction, 99.-I. Some general features of rational choice, 100.-II. The essential simplifications, 103.-III. Existence and uniqueness of solutions, 111.-IV. Further comments on dynamics, 113.-V. Conclusion, 114.-Appendix, 115.
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Perhaps the most significant contemporary theory of lawhood is the Best System (/MRL) view on which laws are true generalizations that best systematize knowledge. Our question in this paper will be how best to formulate a theory of this kind. We'll…
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By using predicate and sentential operators to express the practical modalities-ability, control, openness, etc.-van Inwagen, Ginet, and others have given new life to a fatalistic argument against compatibilism. But standard versions of the argument…
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Harry frankfurt has presented counterexamples to the principle of alternate possibilities (pap), "a person is morally responsible for what he has done only if he could have done otherwise." ("journal of philosophy", 1969.) he concludes that the…
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A number of philosophers maintain that there exists the following asymmetry between responsibility for actions and responsibility for omissions: although an agent may be responsible for an action even if she could not have acted otherwise, an agent…
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An essential part of a modern legal system. This paper advocates rights based on a different kind of 'natural law,' rights which come not from God or externally from nature, but from human behavior - how our minds evolved. Under this approach, there…
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Scales are collections of tones that divide octaves into specific intervals used to create music. Since humans can distinguish about 240 different pitches over an octave in the mid-range of hearing 1, in principle a very large number of tone…
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Cholinergic deafferentation/recovery in rats mainly impinges on the fronto-parietal coupling of brain rhythms D. P. Holschneider et al. (1999) Exp. Brain Res., 126, 270-280. Is this reflected by the functional coupling of fronto-parietal cortical…
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Optimal motor control relies on internal representations of the actual, desired and predicted states of our limbs and the external world. Only certain components of these internal representations are available to awareness. We suggest that…
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Recent neuroimaging studies suggest lateralized cerebral mechanisms in the right temporal parietal junction are involved in complex social and moral reasoning, such as ascribing beliefs to others. Based on this evidence, we tested 3…
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BACKGROUND: Cortical oscillations in the sensorimotor region in the 8-12-Hz range ("mu rhythms") are associated with basic somatosensory and motor processes as well as top-down processes such as learning, attention, expectancy, and inhibition.…
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