Neuroscience and legal responsibility / edited by Nicole A Vincent.

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...

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Other Authors: Vincent, Nicole A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 395 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199925612
0199925615
0199332932
9780199332939
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.