Law and the Brain.
The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music. Applying this new kn...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological sciences.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music. Applying this new knowledge to law seems a natural development - the making, considering, and enforcing of law of course rests on mental processes. However, where some of those activities canbe studied with a certain amount of academic detachment, what we discover about the brain has considerable implications for how w. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780191589430 0191589438 0198570112 9780198570110 |