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As neuroscience continues to reveal the biological basis of human
thought and behavior, what impact will this have on legal theory
and practice? The emerging field of neurolaw seeks to address this
question, but doing so adequately requires confronting difficult
philosophical issues surrounding the nature of mind, free will,
rationality, and responsibility. In The Philosophical Foundations
of Neurolaw, Martin Roth claims that the central philosophical
issue facing neurolaw is whether we can reconcile the conception of
ourselves as free, rational, and responsible agents with the
conception of ourselves as complex bio-chemical machines. Roth
argues that we can reconcile these conceptions. To show this, Roth
develops and defends an account of free will that identifies free
will with the capacity to respond to rational demands, and he
argues that this capacity is at the foundation of our thinking
about responsibility. Roth also shows how the mind sciences can
explain this capacity, thus revealing that a purely physical system
can have the kind of free will that is relevant to responsible
agency. Along the way, Roth critiques a number of arguments that
purport to show that the kind of reconciliation provided is not
possible. Roth concludes that though we should rethink our legal
system in important ways, both in light of his account of free will
and what neuroscience is poised to reveal, neuroscience does not
threaten the law's core commitment to responsible agency.
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3D Spectroscopy in Astronomy (Hardcover)
Evencio Mediavilla, Santiago Arribas, Martin Roth, Jordi Cepa-Nogue, Francisco Sanchez
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Simultaneously storing both spectral and spatial information, 3D
spectroscopy offers a new way to tackle astrophysical problems, and
opens up new lines of research. Since its inception in the eighties
and early nineties, research in this field has grown enormously.
Large telescopes all around the world are now equipped with
integral field units, and two instruments of the future James Webb
Space Telescope will have integral field spectroscopic
capabilities. Nowadays, more effort is dedicated to refining
techniques for reducing, analyzing and interpreting the data
obtained with 3D spectrographs. Containing lectures from the
seventeenth Winter School of the Canary Islands Astrophysics
Institute, this book explores new 3D spectroscopy techniques and
data. A broad and balanced presentation of research in this field,
it introduces astronomers to a new generation of instruments,
widening the appeal of integral field spectroscopy and helping it
become a powerful tool in tackling astrophysical problems.
Simultaneously storing both spectral and spatial information, 3D
spectroscopy offers a new way to tackle astrophysical problems, and
opens up new lines of research. Since its inception in the eighties
and early nineties, research in this field has grown enormously.
Large telescopes all around the world are now equipped with
integral field units, and two instruments of the James Webb Space
Telescope will have integral field spectroscopic capabilities.
Nowadays, more effort is dedicated to refining techniques for
reducing, analysing and interpreting the data obtained with 3D
spectrographs. Containing lectures from the seventeenth Winter
School of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute, this book
explores 3D spectroscopy techniques and data. A broad and balanced
presentation of research in this field, it introduces astronomers
to a new generation of instruments, widening the appeal of integral
field spectroscopy and helping it become a powerful tool in
tackling astrophysical problems.
This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of
antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and
Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental illness
is merely socially deviant behaviour and that psychiatrists are
agents of the capitalist society seeking to repress such behaviour.
It establishes, by the use of evidence from historical and
transcultural studies, that mental illness has been recognized in
all cultures since the beginning of history and goes on to explore
the philosophical and medical basis for psychiatry's diagnosis and
treatment of mental illness. Finally, it tackles two issues where
psychiatry has been seen as at odds with the values prevailing in
society: involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence. The
Reality of Mental Illness does not pretend to offer simple answers
to the complex problems it discusses, but will leave the reader
with a much greater understanding of psychiatry's aims, practices
and problems.
This thought-provoking volume is based on papers given by
practising and academic lawyers, judges, psychiatrists, forensic
experts and sociologists to a recent conference in Cambridge. The
contributors consider possible approaches towards the resolution of
the main dilemmas that face psychiatry, society and the law, and
towards healing the rifts that have developed between the different
professions concerned with the mentally ill. They also consider the
best means of promoting more humane, successful and socially
efficient services.
As neuroscience continues to reveal the biological basis of human
thought and behavior, what impact will this have on legal theory
and practice? The emerging field of neurolaw seeks to address this
question, but doing so adequately requires confronting difficult
philosophical issues surrounding the nature of mind, free will,
rationality, and responsibility. In The Philosophical Foundations
of Neurolaw, Martin Roth claims that the central philosophical
issue facing neurolaw is whether we can reconcile the conception of
ourselves as free, rational, and responsible agents with the
conception of ourselves as complex bio-chemical machines. Roth
argues that we can reconcile these conceptions. To show this, Roth
develops and defends an account of free will that identifies free
will with the capacity to respond to rational demands, and he
argues that this capacity is at the foundation of our thinking
about responsibility. Roth also shows how the mind sciences can
explain this capacity, thus revealing that a purely physical system
can have the kind of free will that is relevant to responsible
agency. Along the way, Roth critiques a number of arguments that
purport to show that the kind of reconciliation provided is not
possible. Roth concludes that though we should rethink our legal
system in important ways, both in light of his account of free will
and what neuroscience is poised to reveal, neuroscience does not
threaten the law's core commitment to responsible agency.
This book considers videogames as spaces of political philosophy.
Emerging from a negotiation between designers, player and computer,
they prompt us to rethink life in common and imagine alternatives
to the status quo. Several case studies on science fictional
videogames from Japan serve to demonstrate this potential for
thought-provoking play.
Selections From The Writings Of Seba Smith, William Tappan
Thompson, Johnson J. Hooper, George Harris, Charles F. Browne,
David Ross Locke, And Charles Smith.
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