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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they
interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of
American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes' Jr., and the pragmatist
tradition of John Dewey. Schulkin proposes that human problem
solving and the law are tied to a naturalistic, realistic and an
anthropological understanding of the human condition. The situated
character of legal reasoning, given its complexity, like reasoning
in neuroscience, can be notoriously fallible. Legal and scientific
reasoning is to be understood within a broader context in order to
emphasize both the continuity and the porous relationship between
the two. Some facts of neuroscience fit easily into discussions of
human experience and the law. However, it is important not to
oversell neuroscience: a meeting of law and neuroscience is
unlikely to prove persuasive in the courtroom any time soon.
Nevertheless, as knowledge of neuroscience becomes more reliable
and more easily accepted by both the larger legislative community
and in the wider public, through which neuroscience filters into
epistemic and judicial reliability, the two will ultimately find
themselves in front of a judge. A pragmatist view of neuroscience
will aid and underlie these events.
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