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12 - Neurobiology collides with moral and criminal responsibility: the result is double vision

from Part V - Legal implications of neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

Walter Glannon
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Free Will and the Brain
Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives
, pp. 231 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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