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Law and the Brain - Couverture souple

Zeki, Semir

 
9780198570110: Law and the Brain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198570112 ISBN 13 : 9780198570110
Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

...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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Éditeur
OUP Oxford
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198570112
ISBN 13 
9780198570110
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
Coordonnées du fabricant
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