Law and the Brain

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The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music. Applying this new knowledge to law seems a natural development - the making, considering, and enforcing of law of course rests on mental processes. However, where some of those activities canbe studied with a certain am…

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Full title :Law and the Brain.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

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Description:1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191589430, 0191589438, 0198570112, 9780198570110
oclc:ocn894171376
LC Classification:K126.C48 .Z384 2006
Dewey Decimal:340.1

Cover; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS; 1. The neuroeconomic path of the law; 2. How neuroscience might advance the law; LAW, BIOLOGY, AND THE BRAIN; 3. Law and the sources of morality; 4. Law, evolution and the brain: applications and open questions; 5. A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice; NEUROECONOMICS AND THE LAW; 6. The brain and the law; 7. Neuroeconomics; DECISION MAKING AND EVIDENCE; 8. A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law; TRUTHFULNESS.

9. A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimagingPROPERTY IN BIOLOGY AND THE BRAIN; 10. The property 'instinct'; CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT; 11. For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything; 12. The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system; 13. The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience; 14. Responsibility and punishment: whose mind? A response; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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Cognitive neuroscience Droit -- Aspect psychologique LAW -- Essays LAW -- General Practice LAW -- Jurisprudence LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism LAW -- Practical Guides Law -- Psychological aspects LAW -- Reference Neurobehavioral disorders -- Law and le… Neurosciences -- Aspect social Neurosciences -- Social aspects Neurosciences cognitives