Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
Dennis Patterson and Michael S. Pardo
Abstract
The intersection between law and neuroscience has been a focus of intense research for the past decade, as an unprecedented amount of attention has been triggered by the increased use of neuroscientific evidence in courts. While the majority of this attention is currently devoted to criminal law, including capital cases, the wide-ranging proposals for how neuroscience may inform issues of law and public policy extend to virtually every substantive area in law. Bringing together current work, this volume examines the philosophical issues that inform this emerging and vibrant subfield of law. Fr ... More
The intersection between law and neuroscience has been a focus of intense research for the past decade, as an unprecedented amount of attention has been triggered by the increased use of neuroscientific evidence in courts. While the majority of this attention is currently devoted to criminal law, including capital cases, the wide-ranging proposals for how neuroscience may inform issues of law and public policy extend to virtually every substantive area in law. Bringing together current work, this volume examines the philosophical issues that inform this emerging and vibrant subfield of law. From discussions featuring the philosophy of the mind to neuroscience-based lie-detection, each chapter addresses foundational questions that arise in the application of neuroscientific technology in the legal sphere.
Keywords:
law,
neuroscience,
neuroscientific evidence,
courts,
criminal law,
capital cases,
public policy,
neuroscientific technology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198743095 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743095.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dennis Patterson, editor
Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers School of Law
Michael S. Pardo, editor
Henry Upson Sims Professor of Law, The University of Alabama School of Law
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