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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

All in the Mind - Addiction, Free Will and Self Control

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Addiction, free will and self control

Heard the one about the psychiatrist, the Supreme Court judge and the philosopher who walked in to a radio studio...? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests in a round-table interrogation of how the brain sciences are changing our understanding of addiction, and the powerful consequences for notions of free will, responsibility and culpability.

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Guests

Professor Jeanette Kennett
Joint appointment,
Departmentof Philosophy
Macquarie Centre for
Cognitive Science
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/kennett.html

Justice David Hodgson
Appeals Court Judge
New South Wales Supreme Court
Sydney
Australia
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Supreme_Court/ll_sc.nsf/pages/SCO_facts_sheet

Dan Lubman
Associate Professor
Centre for Youth Mental Health
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre
Melbourne University
Victoria Australia
http://www.orygen.org.au/contentPage.asp?pageCode=RESHEAD

Further Information

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Addiction, Identity & Responsibility: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Social Science,Philosophy and Law
Held at Macquarie University, October 2009

Addiction: Dis-ease over diseased brains
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 18 August 2007

You are not a SELF!...Bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 10 October 2009

Addiction - What if It's Genetic? (Part 1 of 2)
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 13 July 2003

Addiction - What if It's Genetic? (Part 2 of 2)
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National 20 July 2003

Publications

Title: Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology
Author: Jeanette Kennett
Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2001 *Reissued in paperback 2003
ISBN: 9780198236580

Title: Drugs, mental health and the adolescent brain: implications for early intervention (editorial)
Author: Dan I Lubman, Murat Yücel
Publisher: Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2008, 2: 63-66
URL: http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=227631014&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine

Title: Addiction: a condition of compulsive behaviour? -Neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence of inhibitory dysregulation
Author: Dan I. Lubman, Murat Yücel, Christos Pantelis
Publisher: Addiction, 99, 1491-1502, 2004
URL: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16327486

Title: Neurocognitive and neuroimaging evidence of behavioural dysregulation in human drug addiction: implications for diagnosis, treatment and prevention
Author: Murat Yücel, Dan I. Lubman
Publisher: Drug and Alcohol Review, January 2007, 26, 33-39
URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a769861784?words=pre-existing%7Cimpairments%7Cprefrontal%7Cfunction%7Cdrug%7Cuse&hash=499335974

Title: Understanding drug addiction: a neuropsychological perspective
Author: Murat Yücel, Dan I. Lubman, Nadia Solowij, Warrick J. Brewer
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2007; 41:957-968
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17999268

Title: Substance use and the adolescent brain: A toxic combination
Author: Dan I Lubman, Murat Yücel, Wayne Hall
Publisher: Journal of Psychopharmacology 21 (8), 2007, 792-794
URL: http://jop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/8/792

Title: Responsiveness to Drug Cues and Natural Rewards in Opiate Addiction: Associations with Later Heroin Use
Author: Dan I Lubman, Murat Yücel, Jonathan W.L Kettle, Antonietta Scaffidi, Trudi MacKenzie, Julian G. Simmons, Nicholas B. Allen
Publisher: Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, Vol 66 (No. 2), Feb 2009
URL: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Responsiveness+to+Drug+Cues+and+Natural+Rewards+in+Opiate+Addiction%3A+Associations+with+Later+Heroin+Use&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

Title: Making Our Own Luck
Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: Ratio, 2007, 278-292
URL: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=19048258

Title: The Mind Matters: Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World
Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991
ISBN-10: 0198240686

Title: Consequences of Utilitarianism
Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1ST edition (October 1, 1967)
ISBN-10: 019824312X

Title: Reasons, Reverence and Value
Author: Jeanette Kennett in The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease, and Development edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher: The MIT Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-262-19561-4

Title: Understanding drug addiction: a neuropsychological perspective
Author: M Yücel, D. Lubman, N Solowij, WJ Brewer
Publisher: The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (2007) vol. 41 (12) pp. 957-68
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17999268

Title: Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility
Author: David Hodgson
URL: http://njca.anu.edu.au/Professional%20Development/programs%20by%20year/2008/Sydney%20conf%2008/Hodson%20paper.pdf
Paper given at the National Judicial College of Australia Conference on the Australian Justice System in 2020 Sydney, Saturday 25 October 2008

Title: Guilty Mind or Guilty Brain; Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience
Author: Justice David Hodgson
Publisher: The Australian Law Journal 74, 661-80 2000
URL: http://www.thomsonreuters.com.au/catalogue/productdetails.asp?id=694

Title: Why I (still) believe in Free Will and Responsibility
Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: Times Literary Supplement 6 July 2007
URL: http://users.tpg.com.au/raeda/website/why.htm

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell


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