... The neuroscience of free willCan neuroscience, and the other sciences of the mind, shed light onone of the oldest and most difficult of all philosophical problems, theproblem of free will and ... proved that:at the time of the committing of the act, the party ACCUSED waslaboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as notto know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; ... totheir own advantage. In the absence of any clear sign of the tradi-tional excusing conditions – ignorance, either of the nature of one’sactions, or of the fact that they are wrong, and compulsion...