Research Seminar Spring 2020 (4): The act requirement

The fourth meeting of the project research seminar this term (Spring 2020) will take place from 16.00 to 18.00, on Tuesday 4 February, 2020, in the seminar room at the Department of Philosophy, UCL (19 Gordon Square).

For this meeting, we will focus on questions about the act requirement: Does criminal responsibility depend on the performance of a voluntary act? What is a voluntary act, in the relevant sense? Is there a convincing rationale for the requirement?

Readings:

• Moore, Michael S. 1993. Act and Crime. Oxford UP. Ch. 1 “Introduction” and ch. 2 “The Doctrinal Unity of the Act Requirement.”
• Yaffe, Gideon. 2012. “The Voluntary Act Requirement.” In The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (ed. Andrei Marmor; Routledge), 174–90.

John Hyman will introduce the topic.

For the schedule for the whole term, see this post.