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'Neurophobia,' A Reply To Patterson, Peter A. Alces
'Neurophobia,' A Reply To Patterson, Peter A. Alces
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Neuroscience Changes More Than You Can Think, Paul S. Davies, Peter A. Alces
Neuroscience Changes More Than You Can Think, Paul S. Davies, Peter A. Alces
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In this Essay, we consider the contribution of a startling new book, Law & Neuroscience (L&N), by Owen Jones, Jeffrey Schall, and Francis Shen. It is a law school course book (a genre not often the focus of a scholarly review essay) that supports fundamental inquiry into the relationship between emerging neuroscientific insights and doctrinal conceptions in the law. We believe that the book shifts the paradigm and so may profoundly affect the course of normative evaluation of law. In this Essay, we trace and evaluate the “argument” of the book and suggest ways in which its contribution to the …