Neurosurgery for psychopaths? The problems of empathy and neurodiversity

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Article

Publication Date

2016

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Abstract

I argue that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a bad approach for incarcerated psychopaths for two reasons. First, given what we know about psychopathy, empathy, and DBS, it is unlikely to function as an effective treatment for the moral problems that characterize psychopathy. Second, considerations of neurodiversity speak against seeing psychopathy as a mental illness in the first place.

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