In their paper “Is psychopathy a mental disease?”, Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-
Armstrong argue that according to any plausible account of mental disorder, neural and …

Effective and specifically targeted social and therapeutic responses for antisocial personality
disorders and psychopathy are scarce. Some authors maintain that this scarcity should be …

The psychiatric diagnosis of psychopathic personality or psychopathy signifies a patient
stereotype with a callous lack of empathy and strong antisocial tendencies. Throughout the …

In this paper we aim to offer a balanced argument to motivate (re) thinking about the mental
illness clause within the insanity defence. This is the clause that states that mental illness …

Sažetak The question of whether psychopaths are criminally and morally responsible has
generated significant controversy in the literature. In this paper, we discuss what relevance a …

Should offenders with psychopathy or those exhibiting extreme forms of antisocial behaviour
be considered criminally responsible? The current debate seems to have reached a …

It has been argued that a biomarker-informed classification system for antisocial individuals
has the potential to overcome many obstacles in current conceptualizations of forensic and …

Many argue that psychopaths suffer from a stable pattern of neurobiological dysfunctions
that should be taken into account in sentencing and treatment decisions. These arguments …

Since the 18th century, one of the key features of diagnosed psychopaths has been “moral
colorblindness” or an inability to form moral judgments. However, attempts at experimentally …

Vice epistemology studies how character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles systematically get
in the way of knowledge, while doxastic responsibility is concerned with what kinds of …