The Promise of Neuroscience for Law: 'Overclaiming' in Jurisprudence, Morality, and Economics
Reference
, ‘The Promise of Neuroscience for Law: 'Overclaiming' in Jurisprudence, Morality, and Economics’ in Dennis Patterson and Michael S Pardo (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience (Oxford University Press 2016) 231
Argues that reductionist claims for neuroscience's explanatory power in legal philosophy, moral judgment and economics are not demonstrated, and that neural data do not answer the normative questions.