Judgments about moral responsibility and determinism in patients with behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia: Still compatibilists

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 851-864

  Cova, Florian ^a,b   Bertoux, Maxime ^c,d,e   Bourgeois Gironde, Sacha ^b,f   Dubois, Bruno ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f University Aix Marseille 1   (France)

Author keywords

Emotions; Experimental philosophy; Free will; Frontotemporal dementia; Moral responsibility; Punishment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PUNISHMENT; RESPONSIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84860519666     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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