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Is neurolaw conceptually confused?
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In Minds, Brains, and Law, Michael Pardo and Dennis Patterson argue that current attempts to use neuroscience to inform the theory and practice of law founder because they are built on confused conceptual foundations. Proponents of neurolaw attribute to the brain or to its parts psychological properties that belong only to people; this mistake vitiates many of the claims they make. Once neurolaw is placed on a sounder conceptual footing, Pardo and Patterson claim, we will see that it...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Australian Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands Publisher's website
- Journal:
- The Journal of Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 171–185
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-8609
- ISSN:
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1382-4554
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9776
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Levy, N
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2014. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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