Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action
Title | Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action PDF eBook |
Author | Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108428703 |
Examines the particularly prescient implications that neuroscience has for legal responsibility, highlighting the philosophical and practical challenges that arise.
Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action
Title | Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action PDF eBook |
Author | Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108635202 |
Law regulates human behaviour, a phenomenon about which neuroscience has much to say. Neuroscience can tell us whether a defendant suffers from a brain abnormality, or injury and it can correlate these neural deficits with criminal offending. Using fMRI and other technologies it might indicate whether a witness is telling lies or the truth. It can further propose neuro-interventions to 'change' the brains of offenders and so to reduce their propensity to offend. And, it can make suggestions about whether a defendant knows or merely suspects a prohibited state of affairs; so, drawing distinctions among the mental states that are central to legal responsibility. Each of these matters has philosophical import; is a neurological 'deficit' inculpatory or exculpatory; what is the proper role for law if the mind is no more than the brain; is lying really a brain state and can neuroscience really 'read' the brain? In this edited collection, leading contributors to the field provide new insights on these matters, bringing to light the great challenges that arise when disciplinary boundaries merge.
Neurolaw: The Call for Adjusting Theory Based on Scientific Results
Title | Neurolaw: The Call for Adjusting Theory Based on Scientific Results PDF eBook |
Author | José M. Muñoz |
Publisher | Frontiers Media SA |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 288966208X |
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
Law and Neuroscience
Title | Law and Neuroscience PDF eBook |
Author | Owen D. Jones |
Publisher | Aspen Publishing |
Pages | 1004 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1543801099 |
"Coursebook on law and neuroscience, including the bearing of neuroscience on criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence"--
Free Will and the Brain
Title | Free Will and the Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Glannon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2015-09-18 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1316298620 |
Neuroscientific evidence has educated us in the ways in which the brain mediates our thought and behavior and, therefore, forced us to critically examine how we conceive of free will. This volume, featuring contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of distinguished researchers and scholars, explores how our increasing knowledge of the brain can elucidate the concept of the will and whether or to what extent it is free. It also examines how brain science can inform our normative judgments of moral and criminal responsibility for our actions. Some chapters point out the different respects in which mental disorders can compromise the will and others show how different forms of neuromodulation can reveal the neural underpinning of the mental capacities associated with the will and can restore or enhance them when they are impaired.
Neuroscience and Legal Responsibility
Title | Neuroscience and Legal Responsibility PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole A Vincent |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2013-01-08 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199925615 |
Adopting a broadly compatibilist approach, this volume's authors argue that the behavioral and mind sciences do not threaten the moral foundations of legal responsibility. Rather, these sciences provide fresh insight into human agency and updated criteria as well as powerful diagnostic and intervention tools for assessing and altering minds.
Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will
Title | Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will PDF eBook |
Author | Nancey Murphy |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2009-09-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3642032052 |
How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuine free will? The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of remarkable discoveries on the topic being made by neuroscientists at the present time, on the one hand, and its crucial importance for the way we view ourselves as human beings, on the other. A key tool in understanding how free will may arise in this context is the idea of downward causation in complex systems, happening coterminously with bottom up causation, to form an integral whole. Top-down causation is usually neglected, and is therefore emphasized in the other part of the book’s title. The concept is explored in depth, as are the ethical and legal implications of our understanding of free will. This book arises out of a workshop held in California in April of 2007, which was chaired by Dr. Christof Koch. It was unusual in terms of the breadth of people involved: they included physicists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, and theologians. This enabled the meeting, and hence the resulting book, to attain a rather broader perspective on the issue than is often attained at academic symposia. The book includes contributions by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, George F. R. Ellis , Christopher D. Frith, Mark Hallett, David Hodgson, Owen D. Jones, Alicia Juarrero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Christof Koch, Hans Küng, Hakwan C. Lau, Dean Mobbs, Nancey Murphy, William Newsome, Timothy O’Connor, Sean A.. Spence, and Evan Thompson.