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Circularity And Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Francis Jacobs
Affiliation:
The University of Glasgow

Abstract

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Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1964

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References

1 It was this use which enabled the new defence incorporated in the English Homicide Act of 1957 to be styled ‘diminished responsibility’, and, as if to show that lack of responsibility was considered an illness, the head-note referred to ‘Persons suffering from diminished responsibility’.Google Scholar

1 ‘The Responsibility of Mental Defectives’, Philosophy, 01 1963.Google Scholar