Humanities Institute at Stony Brook Presents:
Andrew Flescher
Dealing with Satan's Minions
Thursday, February 5th, 2015 at 4:00 PM
Humanities Building, Room 1008
To what extent can psychopaths be (or act) otherwise? Evidence has
recently emerged in the fields of neurology and psychology which
suggests that psychopathic behavior is a predictable and
scarcely preventable manifestation of a damaged brain, revealed
by callous and unemotional traits detectable in children even
at a very young age. These findings have re-awakened age-old
discussions about the relationship between free will and the
commission of terrible wrongdoing. This talk will present and
evaluate this new “Manichean” challenge to standard accounts of evil
that tend to rely on, among other things, a robust sense of personal
responsibility.
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