Law and the Brain

ISBN-13: 9780198570110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 300 str.

Semir Zeki; Oliver R. Goodenough

Opis

Represents an 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. This work applies developments in brain science to debates over criminal responsibility, cooperation and punishment, deception, property, and more.

Recenzje

This collection of fourteen fascinating and beautifully written essays is the first emphatic assertion that the law needs neuroscience if it is not to be a hopeless intellectual ostrich, and the first attempt to write a tentative agenda for the debate that has to happen. Few subjects matter more. Anyone who wants to learn the vocabulary of the subject needs this book.