Peter A. Alces Livres

"New insights offered by neuroscience have provoked discussions of the nature of human agency and responsibility. Alces draws on neuroscience to explore the internal contradictions of legal doctrines, and consider what would be involved in constructing novel legal regimes based on emerging understandings of human capacities and characteristics not only in criminal law but in contract and tort law."--Provided by publisher.

"This book enlists emerging neuroscientific insights to explain how law misunderstands human agency and so relies on insubstantial fictions such as morality and moral responsibility to (often) frustrate rather than serve human thriving (whatever we may agree that means)"--Page ix.