Law and the Brain 1st Edition by Semir Zeki, Oliver Goodenough 9780198570110 0198570112
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ISBN 10: 0198570112
ISBN 13: 9780198570110
Author: Semir Zeki, Oliver Goodenough
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:
Chapter 1: The neuroeconomic path of the law
Chapter 2: How neuroscience might advance the law
Chapter 3: Law and the sources of morality
Chapter 4: Law, evolution and the brain: applications and open questions
Chapter 5: A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice
Chapter 6: The brain and the law
Chapter 7: Neuroeconomics
Chapter 8: A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law
Chapter 9: A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimaging
Chapter 10: The property ‘instinct’
Chapter 11: For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything
Chapter 12: The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system
Chapter 13: The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience
Chapter 14: Responsibility and punishment: whose mind? A response
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