Neurolaw and responsibility for action concepts, crimes, and courts
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 wheth...
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Neuroscience and the explanation of human action / Dennis Patterson
- "Nothing but a pack of neurons" : the moral responsibility of the human machine / Michael S. Moore
- Non-eliminative reductionism : not the theory of mind some responsibility theorists want, but the one they need / Katrina Sifferd
- Intention as non-observational knowledge : rescuing responsibility from the brain / Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov
- Efficient causation and neuroscientific explanations of criminal action / Nick J. Davis
- Lying, deception, and fMRI : a critical update / Michael S. Pardo
- Brain-based lie detection and the mereological fallacy : reasons for optimism / John Danaher
- Is brain reading mind reading? / Pim Haselager & Giulio Mecacci
- Unlucky, bad, and the space in between : why criminologists should think more about responsibility / Peter Raynor
- Neuroscience and the criminal jurisdiction : a new approach to reliability and admissibility in the courts of england and wales / Joanna Glynn
- Should individuals with psychopathy be compensated for their fearlessness? (or how neuroscience matters for equality) / Marion Godman
- The treatment of psychopathy: conceptual and ethical issues / Elizabeth Shaw