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Title

Law and the brain / edited by S. Zeki and O. Goodenough.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Goodenough, Oliver R.
• Zeki, Semir.

Description

xviii, 271 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Applying our new found knowledge from neuroscience to the discipline of law seems a natural development - the making, considering, and enforcing of law of course rests on mental processes. However, there are real issues that the legal system will face as neurobiological studies continue to relentlessly probe the human mind. This volume represents the 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.

Series Statement

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences.

Uniform Title

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

Subject

• Law > Psychological aspects
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Neurosciences > Social aspects
• Neurobehavioral disorders > Law and legislation
• Brain [MESH]
• Cognitive Science [MESH]
• Legislation, Medical [MESH]
• Nervous System Diseases [MESH]
• Neurosciences [MESH]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The neuroeconomic path of the law / Morris B. Hoffman -- How neuroscience might advance the law / Erin Ann O'Hara -- Law and the sources of morality / Robert A. Hinde -- Law, evolution and the brain : applications and open questions / Owen D. Jones -- A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice / Oliver R. Goodenough and Kristin Prehn -- The brain and the law / Terrence Chorvat and Kevin McCabe -- Neuroeconomics / Paul J. Zak -- A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law / Jonathan A. Fugelsang and Kevin N. Dunbar -- A cognitive neurobiological account of deception : evidence from functional neuroimaging / Sean A. Spence ... [et al.] -- The property 'instinct' / Jeffrey Evans Stake -- For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything / Jashua Greene and Jonathan Cohen -- The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system / Robert M. Sapolsky -- The emergence of consequential thought : evidence from neuroscience / Abigail A. Baird and Jonathan A. Fugelsang -- Responsibility and punishment : whose mind? : a response / Oliver R. Goodenough.

ISBN

• 0198570112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0198570104 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780198570110 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780198570103 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005023085

OCLC

61262371

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Harvard Library