Nicole Vincent

Nicole Vincent obtained her PhD in the philosophy of tort law in 2007 from the University of Adelaide in Australia. She subsequently spent three years in the Netherlands working on a project entitled “The Brain and the Law,” before returning to Australia for another three years to kick start the Australian Neurolaw Database project. In 2013, she joined Georgia State University as an associate professor of philosophy, law, and neuroscience. The concept of responsibility occupies center stage in Vincent’s work. She has written on such topics as the compatibility of responsibility and determinism, medical interventions to make criminal offenders competent for execution, how neuroscience and behavioral genetics fit into criminal responsibility adjudication procedures, tort liability for failure to use cognitive enhancement medications, and whether people who live unhealthy lifestyles should have de-prioritized access to public health care resources and to organ transplants.