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Law and the Brain

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 can be studied with a certain amount of academic detachment, what we discover about the brain has considerable implications for how we consider and judge those who follow or indeed flout the law - with inevitable social and political consequences. There are real issues that the legal system will face as neurobiological studies continue to relentlessly probe the human mind - the motives for our actions, our decision making processes, and such issues as free will and responsibility. This volume represents a first serious attempt to address questions of law as reflecting brain activity, emphasizing that it is the organization and functioning of the brain that determines how we enact and obey laws. It applies the most recent developments in brain science to debates over criminal responsibility, cooperation and punishment, deception, moral and legal judgment, property, evolutionary psychology, law and economics, and decision-making by judges and juries. Written and edited by leading specialists from a range of disciplines, the book presents a groundbreaking and challenging new look at human behaviour.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1: Semir Zeki & Oliver Goodenough: Law and the Brain - an introduction Introductory Essays 2: Morris Hoffman: The neuroeconomic path of the law 3: Erin O'Hara: How neuroscience might advance the law Law, Biology and the Brain 4: Robert Hinde: Law and the sources of morality 5: Owen Jones: Law, evolution and the brain: applications and open questions 6: Oliver Goodenough & Kristin Prehn: A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice Neuroeconomics and Law 7: Terrence Chorvath & Kevin McCabe: The brain and the law 8: Paul Zak: Neuroeconomics Decision Making and Evidence 9: Jonathan Fugelsang & Kevin Dunbar: A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law Truthfulness 10: Sean Spence et al: A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimaging Property in Biology and the Brain 11: Jeffrey Stake: The property 'instinct' Criminal Responsibility and Punishment 12: Joshua Greene & Jonathan Cohen: For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything 13: Robert Sapolsky: The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system 14: Abigail Baird & Jonathan Fugelsang: The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience 15: Oliver Goodenough: Responsibility and punishment: whose mind? A response

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...an exciting new area of inquiry and this book is a great representation of this extremely interesting subject. Doody's Notes This collection of fourteen fascinating and beautifully written essays is the first emphatic assertion that the law needs neuroscience if it is not to be a hopeless intellectual ostrich, and the first attempt to write a tentative agenda for the debate that has to happen. Few subjects matter more. Anyone who wants to learn the vocabulary of the subject needs this book. British Journal of Psychiatry Vol 189


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198570110
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 290
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 167 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198570112
  • Publisher Date: 23 Feb 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 517 gr


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