Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy – serie
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The Neuroethics of Biomarkers
What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder
Inbunden, 2016
1583 kr
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Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, blood, saliva, and brain images in hopes of uncovering biomarkers that could help estimate risk of brain disorders like psychosis and dementia; though the science of bioprediction is young, its prospects are unearthing controversy about how bioprediction …
Finding Consciousness
The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage
Av Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Inbunden, 2016
1720 kr
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Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has …
Neurointerventions and the Law
Regulating Human Mental Capacity
Av Nicole A Vincent, Thomas Nadelhoffer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1430 kr
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This volume makes a contribution to the field of neurolaw by investigating issues raised by the development, use, and regulation of neurointerventions. The broad range of topics covered in these chapters reflects neurolaw's growing social import, and its rapid expansion as an academic field of …
The Future of Punishment
Inbunden, 2013
2077 kr
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Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences. This volume aims at providing philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to examine the cluster of related issues that will …
Handbook on Psychopathy and Law
Av Kent A. Kiehl, Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2705 kr
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Psychopaths constitute less than 1% of the general population but over 20% of prison populations. They commit a disproportionate amount of crime and violence in society. Given that the economic burden of crime in the United States is estimated to be over $2.3 trillion per year, psychopaths likely …
Bioprediction, Biomarkers, and Bad Behavior
Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Challenges
Av Ilina Singh, Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1356 kr
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Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part on biological information, such as brain …
A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience
A contribution of the Law and Neuroscience Project, supported by the MacArthur Foundation
Av Stephen J. Morse, Adina L. Roskies
Inbunden, 2013
1581 kr
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This handbook, the result of a three-year multidisciplinary initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation, brings lawyers, neuroscientists, and philosophers together to explore the appropriate relationary between neuroscience and law and to engage in empiricalted …
Addiction and Self-Control
Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
Av Neil Levy
Inbunden, 2014
1262 kr
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This book brings together a set of papers, many which grow out of presentations at a conference in Oxford in 2009 on addiction and self-control, by a set of thinkers who are united in believing that understanding agency and failures of agency requires engagement with the best science. The papers it …
Memory and Law
Inbunden, 2012
2306 kr
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The legal system depends upon memory function in a number of critical ways, including the memories of victims, the memories of individuals who witness crimes or other critical events, the memories of investigators, lawyers, and judges engaged in the legal process, and the memories of jurors. How …
Neuroscience and Legal Responsibility
Inbunden, 2013
1647 kr
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How should neuroscience, psychology and behavioral genetics impact legal responsibility practices?Recent findings from these fields are sometimes claimed to threaten the moral foundations of legal responsibility practices by revealing that determinism, or something like it, is true. On this account …
