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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.1/9
• Soggetto topico: Law - Psychological aspects; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurosciences - Social aspects; Neurobehavioral disorders - Law and legislation
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): GoodenoughOliver R.; ZekiSemir
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 amount of academic detachment, what we discover about the brain has considerable implications for how w
• Titolo autorizzato: Law and the brain
• ISBN: 0-19-158943-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463655003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. : Series B, . -Biological sciences.