Matthew Taylor
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407 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2011
last heard Nov 2011
Matthew Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Morse argues that that's because the way of thinking which underlies our way of judging blame, what he terms our folk philosophy, remains more powerful.
If he had done it then, so for instance, when the tumor was discovered, he was molesting nurses in the examination room.
Would I hold him responsible for molesting nurses in the examination room?
Of course not.
The man at that point had severely damaged rationality.
But at the time he touched his stepdaughter, which was many months earlier, he was going to his job.
He was keeping secret his pedophilic tendencies from his wife.
You know, there are a lot of people with pedophilic tendencies where those tendencies don't come from a tumor.
We don't excuse those people, whether that strong untoward desire comes from the kind of child rearing you had, some biological factor, some sociological factor, or all three.
We're still going to hold you responsible for giving in to a strong illegal desire, as it were, if you had sufficient capacity for rationality.
And that's the real question for the law.
But if neuroscientists and brain scans can't yet tell us who to blame, can they at least help us decide who to trust?
Brain scanning technology has resurrected the idea that machines can judge human memory.
In America, companies market this technology to employers and government departments.
In India, the older version of brain scanning, the electrocephalogram, was recently used to help convict a young woman of murder.
and there are some making the case for the new technology closer to home.
Professor Hans Marksowicz of Bielefeld University in Germany is a world-leading expert in amnesia, and he may also be the first scientist to use brain scanning in a criminal case in Europe, a murder in Germany.
The young woman scanned by Marksevich was the key witness in a case of brutal murder.
She'd been beaten so severely by the alleged murderer that she suffered from amnesia.
So the judge wanted help to decide whether to trust her account of the incident.
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