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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Law -- Psychological aspects. |
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Cognitive neuroscience.
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Cognitive neuroscience. |
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Neurosciences -- Social aspects.
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Neurosciences -- Social aspects. |
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Neurosciences. |
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Neurobehavioral disorders -- Law and legislation.
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Neurobehavioral disorders. |
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Electronic books.
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Law. |
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Goodenough, Oliver.
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Print version: Zeki, Semir. Law and the Brain. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2006 9780198570110 |
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9780191589430 (electronic book) |
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0191589438 (electronic book) |
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