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Book SynopsisAs neuroscience continues to reveal the biological basis of human thought and behavior, what impact will this have on legal theory and practice? The emerging field of neurolaw seeks to address this question, but doing so adequately requires confronting difficult philosophical issues surrounding the nature of mind, free will, rationality, and responsibility. In The Philosophical Foundations of Neurolaw, Martin Roth claims that the central philosophical issue facing neurolaw is whether we can reconcile the conception of ourselves as free, rational, and responsible agents with the conception of ourselves as complex bio-chemical machines. Roth argues that we can reconcile these conceptions. To show this, Roth develops and defends an account of free will that identifies free will with the capacity to respond to rational demands, and he argues that this capacity is at the foundation of our thinking about responsibility. Roth also shows how the mind sciences can explain this capacity, thus re
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Two Images Chapter 2: Fusion Confusion Chapter 3: Spiderman, Doing Whatever a Spider Can Chapter 4: What a Stupid I Am! Chapter 5: Dasein Design Chapter 6: Fusion Finalized Chapter 7: Bad Brains Chapter 8: fMRIs Are Watching You Chapter 9: Does the Legal System Have a Diminished Capacity? Appendix: Court Cases and Legal Doctrine
