Law, Responsibility, and the Brain

@article{Mobbs2007LawRA,
  title={Law, Responsibility, and the Brain},
  author={Dean Mobbs and Hakwan C. Lau and Owen D Jones and Chris D. Frith},
  journal={PLoS Biology},
  year={2007},
  volume={5}
}
Brain-imaging studies have reinvigorated the neurophilosophical and legal debate of whether we are free agents in control of our own actions or mere prisoners of a biologically determined brain. 
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