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Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience

Law and neuroscience is among the fastest-growing and most intellectually demanding areas of interdisciplinary legal research. New technologies in neuroscience promise to give deep insight into all manner of human cognitive, volitional and affective functions. The impact on the legal system will be monumental, necessitating rethinking everything from intentionality to responsibility. This monograph, traversing philosophy, ethics, law and public policy is the first and only full-length treatment of the philosophical, conceptual and legal dimensions of these new developments. Because of its ground-breaking and interdisciplinary nature, it is a work on a large scale and took some two years in construction.