Neuroscience and legal responsibility:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press c2013
Series:Oxford series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy
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Item Description:Embracing a broadly compatibilist approach - one according to which responsibility hinges on psychological features of agents not on metaphysical features of the universe - this volume's authors demonstrate that the behavioural and mind sciences may impact on legal responsibility practices in a range of different ways. For instance, by providing fresh insight into the nature of normal and pathological human agency, by offering updated medical and legal criteria for forensic practitioners as well as powerful new diagnostic and intervention tools and techniques with which to appraise and to alter minds, and by raising novel regulatory challenges
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 395 p.)
ISBN:9780199332939
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925605.001.0001

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