Open AccessNeurolaw and the Neuroscience of Free Will: an Overview
Author(s) -
Renato César Cardoso
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2603-6924
pISSN - 1887-9853
DOI - 10.46583/scio_2021.21.843
Subject(s) - neurolaw , cognitive science , neuroethics , field (mathematics) , neuroscience , scientific progress , cognitive neuroscience , intersection (aeronautics) , engineering ethics , psychology , cognition , social neuroscience , epistemology , philosophy , social cognition , engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , aerospace engineering
Due to the advent of modern neuroscience, several scientific disciplines have developed entirely new theories, perspectives, and methodologies. The substantial advances and discoveries made in this field over the last decades, especially those concerned with human cognition and behavior, have steered the course of many traditional research areas and given rise to others, like neuroethics and neurolaw. Here we take a look at some of the general characteristics of the growing field of neurolaw, an interdisciplinary field that dwells on the intersection of law and neuroscience. We then discuss the neuroscience of free will, one of the most impacting and pressing topics in the neurolaw debate, with special attention to Libet’s paradigm, recent scientific developments, and novel interpretations that question customary assumptions about it.