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Gideon Yaffe is the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor at Yale University, with joint appointments at the Yale Law School and the Philosophy Department. His research bridges Philosophy of Law, Free Will, Personal Identity, and the Theory of Action and Intention, focusing on intersections between legal and philosophical frameworks.
His recent work explores criminal culpability through neuroscience (e.g., detecting mens rea), age-related legal responsibility (juvenile and elderly offenders), and ethical implications of neurotechnology. Trends in his scholarship highlight collaborations with the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, emphasizing voluntary act requirements, willful ignorance, and deliberate action in criminal law.
Key contributions include critiques of punishment theories, analyses of legal defenses, and interdisciplinary studies on decision-making in courts. His publications address topics like neurofeedback regulation, political ideology prediction via neural data, and racial justice in pandemic policy enforcement, underscoring his commitment to applied philosophy and legal reform.
