Neuroscience and legal responsibility /

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Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Vincent, Nicole A.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2013]
©2013
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Oxford series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=4a0f90774d324d0990203e42df3d89c9
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (viii, 395 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199925612
9780199925605
Index Number: K346
CLC: D90-054
Contents: Law and neuroscience : historical context / Nicole A. Vincent -- Common criminal law compatibilism / Stephen J. Morse -- What can neurosciences say about responsibility? Taking the distinction between theoretical and practical reason seriously / Anne Ruth Mackor -- Irrationality, mental capacities and neuroscience / Jillian Craigie and Alicia Coram -- Skepticism concerning human agency : sciences of the self vs. "voluntariness" in the law / Paul Sheldon Davies -- The implications of heuristics and biases research on moral and legal responsibility : a case against the reasonable person standard / Leora Dahan-Katz -- Moral responsibility and consciousness : two challenges, one solution / Neil Levy -- Translating scientific evidence into the language of the "folk" : executive function as capacity-responsibility / Katrina L. Sifferd -- Neuroscience, deviant appetites and the criminal law / Colin Gavaghan -- Is psychopathy a mental disease? / Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- Addiction, choice, and disease : how voluntary is voluntary action in addiction? / Jeanette Kennett -- How may neuroscience affect the way that the criminal courts deal with addicted offenders? / Wayne Hall and Adrian Carter -- Enhancing responsibility / Nicole A. Vincent -- Guilty minds in washed brains? Manipulation cases, excuses and the limits of neuroscientific excuses in liberal legal orders / Christoph Bublitz and Reinhard Merkel.