For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1451, 2004, Pages 1775-1785

  Greene, Joshua ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Free will; Law; Morality; Punishment; Retributivism

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

EID: 10044242540     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1546     Document Type: Review

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