Law and the Brain
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2006.
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS; 1. The neuroeconomic path of the law; 2. How neuroscience might advance the law; LAW, BIOLOGY, AND THE BRAIN; 3. Law and the sources of morality; 4. Law, evolution and the brain: applications and open questions; 5. A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice; NEUROECONOMICS AND THE LAW; 6. The brain and the law; 7. Neuroeconomics; DECISION MAKING AND EVIDENCE; 8. A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law; TRUTHFULNESS 9. A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimagingPROPERTY IN BIOLOGY AND THE BRAIN; 10. The property 'instinct'; CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT; 11. For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything; 12. The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system; 13. The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience; 14. Responsibility and punishment: whose mind? A response; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
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.