Analysis Of The Brain On Trial By David Eagleman

In “The Brain on Trial,” David Eagleman claims that punishment should be justified based on forward- looking grounds. He argues that in order for someone to deserve punishment for committing a crime, they have to be blamed for committing it. But no one is to blame because we lack the ability of free choice. In this paper, I will be arguing that Eagleman’s main conclusion is false because our choices are caused by reasoning rather than by a neurological cause. Therefore, our system of punishment should be based on the hardness of the crime. I do believed the fact that punishment is only unjustified if and only if the accused has a reliable and worthy excuse, such that it demonstrates the innocence for what they did. For instance,