In Free Will and Responsibility, John Callender starts by describing the evolution of morality and the roles of reason and emotion in the making of moral judgments. He then summarises recent neuroscientific research on volitional behaviour, moral decision-making and criminality and discusses what this might mean for our practices of blame and punishment. In the second part, he examines the overlaps between art, free will, and moral value and argues that this offers a paradigm that reconciles our subjective sense of freedom with causal determinism. Finally, he examines these ideas in the clinical context of conditions such as psychopathic personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and the dissociative disorders and discusses their implications for psychotherapy.

This book makes a unique contribution to the philosophy and psychiatry literature, and will be fascinating reading for both practising psychiatrist, as well as philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

Introduction
Thinking about morality
1: Evolution of Morality
2: Moral reasoning and the moral emotions
3: Moral theories and moral truths
4: Responsibility and punishment
5: Neuroscience, free will and moral responsibility
Thinking about Free Will
6: Art, free will and moral value: an interactive model
Clinical Applications
7: Weakness of the will: akrasia in clinical practice
8: Psychopathic personality disorder
9: Trauma, dissociative disorders and PTSD
10: Psychotherapy, freedom and responsibility
Conclusions
11: Conclusions

John S. Callender , Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen. Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, UK

John Callender has been a consultant psychiatrist since 1986 and Medical Director of Grampian Psychiatric services since 1991. He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Medical School, University of Aberdeen. He has been interested in the philosophy of psychiatry for the past twelve years. He is a member of the Grampian Clinical Ethics Committee and the North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee. He has published papers on ethics and aesthetics in relation to psychiatry in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, and Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.