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Studies in the Philosophy of Law, p.5 : Law and Biology.
The present book is the fifth volume of the series Studies in the Philosophy of Law which has appeared since 2001. The previous three volumes had a monographic character, the last one being devoted to the various issues of bioethics, law and philosophy and the previous one to the topic of the econom...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Kraków :
Jagiellonian University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in the Philosophy of Law, p.5.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; Preface; THE GENOMICS REVOLUTION IN THE SHADOW OF AUSCHWITZ: EUGENICS, GENISM, AND GENETIC GENOCIDE; Equality and genomics; Genetic genocide; What future for our species?; HUMAN GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE PROBLEMS OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE; Introduction; HGE as a subject of moral-philosophical discussion and research; Genetic engineering, genetic enhancement and distributive justice; Conclusions and further questions; GENETIC TESTING
- PRESENT AND FUTURE PROBLEMS; Free consent; Access; The right to know or not to know; Privacy; Commercialization; Discrimination; Conclusion.
- WHAT IS SO UNFAIR ABOUT USING GENETIC INFORMATION? THE PROBLEM OF GENETIC DISCRIMINATIONIntroduction; Genetic information, testing and screening; Use of genetic information; What is genetic discrimination?; How may genetic discrimination manifest itself?; Laws prohibiting genetic discrimination; Some arguments against the prohibition of genetic discrimination; Some arguments for the prohibition of genetic discrimination; When genetic features are unjustified criteria of different treatment- challenging genetic determinism; Concluding remarks; SOME REMARKS ON THE NATURALIZATION OF LAW.
- IntroductionCase study: Petrazycki's legal theory; Case study: Zaluski on the evolutionary philosophy of law; Concluding remarks: how to naturalize law?; REVISITING 'EQUALITY IN EXCHANGEREVISITED': CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTIONARY (GENETIC AND CULTURAL) APPROACHES TO HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND THE NORMATIVITY OF LAW; Introduction; Substantive fairness in modern western contract law theory andin exchange in pre-commercial societies; Fairness in (cross-cultural) economic experiments; Evolutionary approaches to social (fairness) norms, punishment andpro-sociality in humans.
- Conclusion: Dual inheritance theory or gene-culture co-evolutionary theory and evolutionary analysis in lawLEGAL POSITIVISM AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: CAN LEGAL POSITIVISTS LEARN SOMETHING FROM DARWIN?; What is evolutionary biology and why should social scientists bother?; The relevance of evolutionary psychology for positivist theories thatre construct law as a purely or essentially normative phenomenon; Evolutionary psychology and the legal realist approach: a Darwinian perspective on judicial behaviour?; Conclusion; NEUROLAW. A NEW PARADIGM IN LEGAL PHILOSOPHY; Introduction.
- Two perspectivesNeurolaw
- from the philosophical point of view; Normative judgments; Neurolaw from a practical point of view; THE QUESTION OF NON HUMAN PRIMATES MORALITY; Introduction; Problems with morality defining; Empathy in non human primates; Sense of fairness and fairness-related emotions; Conclusions; ANIMALS AS MORAL AGENTS; Equal consideration of interests; Moral agency; Feeling pain; Animal interests and animal rights; Conclusion; SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN LEGAL PRACTICE; Introduction; Technology, knowledge management and cognition.