Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity (Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy)

The development of neurointervention techniques that promise to deliver new ways of altering people's minds (by intervening in their brains) creates opportunities and challenges that raise important and rich conceptual, moral, jurisprudential, and scientific questions. The specific purpose of this volume is to make a contribution to the field of neurolaw by investigating the legal and moral issues raised by the development and use of neurointerventions (actual, proposed, and potential).

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).