Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 505 g
Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 505 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-857011-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- 1: Semir Zeki and Oliver Goodenough: Law and the Brain - an introduction
- Introductory Essays
- 2: Morris Hoffman: The neuroeconomic path of the law
- 3: Erin O'Hara: How neuroscience might advance the law
- Law, Biology and the Brain
- 4: Robert Hinde: Law and the sources of morality
- 5: Owen Jones: Law, evolution and the brain: applications and open questions
- 6: Oliver Goodenough and Kristin Prehn: A neuroscientific approach to normative judgment in law and justice
- Neuroeconomics and Law
- 7: Terrence Chorvath and Kevin McCabe: The brain and the law
- 8: Paul Zak: Neuroeconomics
- Decision Making and Evidence
- 9: Jonathan Fugelsang and Kevin Dunbar: A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law
- Truthfulness
- 10: Sean Spence et al: A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimaging
- Property in Biology and the Brain
- 11: Jeffrey Stake: The property 'instinct'
- Criminal Responsibility and Punishment
- 12: Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen: For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything
- 13: Robert Sapolsky: The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system
- 14: Abigail Baird and Jonathan Fugelsang: The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience
- 15: Oliver Goodenough: Responsibility and punishment: whose mind? A response
