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The Devil Made Me Do It: The law recognizes many types of excuses for criminal behavior. What do you think should distinguish a legitimate excuse from an illegitimate one?

Emerging Defenses to Crime
(http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/405/405lect02.htm)
List of legal justifications, excuses, mitigations

Forensic Psychiatry & Medicine
(http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artRebirth.html)
Forensic Psychiatry and legal defenses

Freedom and Foreknowledge: If God knows the future, can we have free will?

Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom
(http://twtministries.com/articles/9_openness/divine.html)
Article by Donald H. Wacome defending the view that God is not omniscient

Omniscience and Freedom: A Case for the Opposition
(http://www.valdosta.edu/~rbarnett/phi/free.html)
Handout from Ron Barnette (Valdosta University)

Legitimate Defenses: Could a traditional compatibilist accept as legitimate far-out legal defenses claiming that the agent's actions were out of his control ?

Emerging Defenses to Crime
( http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/405/405lect02.htm )
List of legal justifications, excuses, mitigations

Forensic Psychiatry & Medicine
( http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artRebirth.html )
Forensic Psychiatry and legal defenses

Are We Puppets or Free Agents
(http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65990,00.html)
This Wired.com article looks at free will legal defenses in the context of neuroscience.

The Twinkie Defense
(http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm)
The facts behind the “Twinkie Defense.”

Diminished capacity as opposed to not guilty by reason of insanity
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/insane/capacity.html)
Explanation of the difference between a diminished capacity defense and an insanity plea

Sleepwalking - Nightmare for the courts
(http://www.colorado.edu/iec/SP200RW/sleep.htm )
Sleepwalking as a legal defense

The Book of Life: Suppose a perfect predictor super wrote a book chronicling every moment of your life. Could you do otherwise than what is written?

Agency and Omniscience
(http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Kapitan/omniagent.html)
Article by Thomas Kapitan from Religious Studies (1991) arguing that omniscience is incompatible with free agency

Free Will
(http://www.rationality.net/freewill.htm)
Article by Walter E. Requadt from rationality.net arguing that there couldn't be a perfect predictor because of randomness

Free Will Contradicts the Idea of an Omniscient God
(http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/freewill.html)
Discussion by Adrian Barnett arguing that nothing can be omniscient

John Calvin: On Predestination
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/calvin-predest.html)
Selection from Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (The Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University)

Defending Determinism: Is determinism self-refuting?

Materialism is Self-refuting
(http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/materialism.html)
Excerpt from C.S. Lewis's Miracles

C.S. Lewis' Teleological Argument
(http://faculty.winthrop.edu/craigheadh/articles/csl.htm)
Article by Houston A. Craighead (Winthrop University) defending Lewis' claim that naturalism is self-refuting

Genetic Cleansing: Should we use genetic engineering to alter our psychological make-up?

BLTC Research
(http://www.bltc.com/)
Mission Statement of an organization devoted to altering the human genome to eliminate suffering

Council for Responsible Genetics
(http://www.gene-watch.org/)
Home page of an organization dedicated to fostering public debate about the ethical and environmental implications of genetic technology

Reproductive Genetics Resource Center
(http://www.arhp.org/healthcareproviders/resources/genetics/index.cfm?ID=293)
Articles on all aspects of genetic engineering

Human Genetic Engineering
(http://www.probe.org/docs/humgeneng.html)
Article by Dr. Ray Bohlin exploring the pros and cons from a Christian perspective

Human Genetic Engineering
(http://www.gyre.org/news/explore/Human+Genetic+Engineering)
Set of links provided by gyre.com

Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers
(http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/gedanger.htm)
Set of links provided by Ron Epstein (San Francisco State University)

Newcomb's Paradox: Consider the deal described on page 188. Would you choose option (1) or option (2)?

Newcombiana Applications
(http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/handouts/161033/newtan.html)
of Newcomb’s paradox to nuclear war

Newcomb's Paradox
(http://members.aol.com/kiekeben/newcomb.html)
Article by Franz Kiekeben considering various solutions and presenting his own

Quantum Solution to Newcomb's Paradox
(http://alpha.uwb.edu.pl/ep/RePEc/sla/eakjkl/10.pdf)
Article by Edward W. Piotrowski (University of Bialtystok) using quantum mechanics to solve the paradox (Adobe File)

Paradoxes or Fallacy
(http://www.paradoxes.info/NewcombsParadox.html)
Analysis of Newcomb's paradox by Andrew McMillan

Unlimited Room for Thought
(http://www.thegline.com/thought/2001/09-28-2001.htm)
Article by the Gline exploring the implications of Newcomb's paradox for education

Brain Stimulation: Should we directly stimulate people's brains to affect their behavior?

Electro-stimulation of the Brain: A History
(http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/WIRE_TXT.htm)
Article from psychicinvestigator.com

Physical Control of the Mind
(http://www.wireheading.com/delgado/excerpt.html)
Excerpt from Jose Delgado's book, Physical Control of the Mind

Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording
(http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/mind_control/165760.html)
Article by Jose Delgado originally published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

The Orgasmic Brain
(http://www.paradise-engineering.com/brain/index.htm)
Excerpts from the Three Pound Universe by Judith Hooper and Dick Teresi discussing the perils and potential of "wireheading" (wiring the brain)

Operation Mind Control
(http://home.att.net/~mcra/omc.htm)
Excerpts from Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart identifying ways in which the government has tried to control the populace

The Mind Stealers
(http://home.swipnet.se/allez/Eng/Chavkin.htm)
Excerpt from Samual Chavkins, The Mind Stealers: Psychosurgury and Mind Control identifying the ways in which scientists are trying to control behavior

Jose Delgado
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/implant/
Site describing the life and work of brain stimulation pioneer, Jose Delgado.

Wireheading Hedonism
http://www.wireheading.com/
Site promoting direct stimulation of the brain.

Doctor Discovers the Orgasmatron
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/story?id=235788&page=1
Report on Dr. Meloy's device for creating an orgasm through neural stimulation.

The Battle for your Brain
http://www.reason.com/0302/fe.rb.the.shtml
Critical examination of the arguments against using brain control technology.

George Orwell meets the Matrix
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/07/far04025.html
Timeline indicating the major advancements in brain control by Maureen Farrell.

Brain Scanning: Don't Even Think About Lying
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/lying_pr.html
Article describing the new brain scanning technology designed to detect lying by Steve Silberman.

Brainwashing: Can someone who has been effectively brainwashed act freely?

Mind Control
(http://www.factnet.org/)
Homepage of FACTnet, Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network

The Return of the Brainwashing Defense
(http://www.cesnur.org/2002/brain_dec.htm)
Article by Jack Hitt from the New York Times, December 15, 2002

Mind Control
(http://skepdic.com/mindcont.html)
Entry from the Skeptics Dictionary maintained by Robert Todd Carroll

Project MKULTRA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
Wikipedia article describing the CIA's mind control program

Brainwashing victims win cash award
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1313808,00.html
Victims of the CIA's mind control program are awarded compensation.

The Willing Bank Teller: According to Frankfurt, would a bank teller who turned over money to a bank robber act freely?

The Theory of Autonomy
(http://www.theihs.org/libertyguide/hsr/hsr.php/33.html)
Article by James Stacey Taylor from Humane Studies Review exploring the relationship between autonomy and free action

The Taxonomy of Responsibility
(http://www.unnu.com/newhome/writings/Philo/MyTaxonomy.cfm)
Article by Schlomo Sher summarizing various theories of responsibility

Libet's Experiment: Does Libet's delay show that free will is an illusion?

Benjamin Libet - a short delay
(http://www.consciousentities.com/libet.htm)
A detailed discussion of Libet's experiment.

Free Will Starts ... Now
(http://loom.corante.com/archives/000784.html)
Another discussion of Libet, with interesting information about a follow up study done as a tribute to Libet.

Free Will and Free Won't
(http://skeptically.org/spiritualism/id11.html)
American Scientist article on Libet's experiments and “free won't.”

Self-consciousness and Free Will: Is it possible for a self-conscious being not to have free will?

Free Will, Three Kinds of Selves, and Moral Realislm
(http://www.psy.mpg.de/MPIPF/vw-symp-texte/vierkant.pdf)
Article by Till Verkant (Max Planck Institute) arguing that our concept of self is related to free will (Adobe File)

Human Thinking
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/THINKING.html)
Article from the Principia Cybernetica Web arguing that our ability to control associations among ideas is the origin of thought and free will

Sartre on "Bad Faith"
(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billramey/sartre.htm)
Article by Ernest Brown explicating Sartre's notion of bad faith

Free Androids: Could a computer have free will?

Free Will--Even for Robots
(http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/freewill/freewill.html)
Article by John McCarthy on the possibility of robotic free will

Flesh, Robots, and God
(http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/02/25/flesh_machines/index.html)
Interview with Rodney Brooks by John Glassie for Salon.com

Free Will, Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Robots
(http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/research/persons/fwdt/intro.html)
Article by Kenton Machina for the Mind Project

Truly Intelligent Computers
(http://www.cni.org/pub/LITA/Think/Bailey.html)
Article by Charles W. Baily, Jr. (University of Houston) exploring the properties of truly intelligent computers

How to Dispose of the Free Will Issue
(http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/Aaron.Sloman_freewill.pdf)
Article by Aaron Sloman (University of Binghamton – Adobe File)

Robots and Rights: The Ethical Demands of Artificial Agents
(http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/endsandmeans/vol1no2/elton.shtml)
Article by Matthew Elton (University of Stirling)








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