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Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement

Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement

9780198727392
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There has been much recent excitement amongst neuroscientists and ethicists about the possibility of using drugs, as well as other technologies, to enhance cognition in healthy individuals. This excitement has arisen from recent advances in neuroscientific technologies such as drugs that increase alertness and wakefulness in healthy individuals or technologies that can stimulate activity in different parts of the brain - either via the scalp or via electrodes - raising thepossibility of producing cognitive and affective improvements in otherwise healthy individuals. Despite this growing interest, there are conflicting views on the ethics of cognitive enhancement. Some argue that enhancement is not only an ethical pursuit but one that we have a moral obligation to pursue.Others are more skeptical about the ethical implications and long term effects of cognitive enhancement. Some neuroscientists argue that use of stimulants as putative enhancers will lead to misuse, abuse and addiction in some users, and might have undesirable long-term consequences. This book critically explores and analyses the scientific and ethical debates surrounding cognitive enhancers. Including contributions from neuroscientists, neuropsychopharmacologists, ethicists, philosophers, public health professionals, and policy researchers, the book offers a multidisciplinary, critical consideration of the ethics of the use of cognitive enhancers.
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OUP Oxford
87920
9780198727392
9780198727392

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Publication date
2017
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
336
Dimensions (mm)
171 x 246
Weight (g)
754
  • Preface; Editorial; List of Contributors; Part I: Introduction to the Volume; Should we get smarter by taking cognitive drugs? Towards a critical appraisal of arguments and evidence in the debate on cognitive enhancement; The ethical debate on human enhancement and cognitive enhancement by way of biotechnologies; Part II: Risk and benefits of the use of neuropharmacological drugs for cognitive enhancement; Overclocking the brain? The potential and limitations of Cognition-Enhancing Drugs; Neuro-enhancement: a call for better evidence on safety and efficacy; Exaggerating benefits and downplaying risks in the debate on cognitive neuroenhancement; The Effects of Modafinil on Creativity: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial; Does modafinil improve cognitive functioning in healthy individuals?; Cognitive enhancement using noninvasive brain stimulation: weighing opportunity, feasibility, and risk; The use of brain stimulation technology for cognitive enhancement and the potential for addiction; Debunking the ethical neuroenhancement debate; Part III: Ethical, philosophical, legal and policy issues of cognitive enhancement; The evolutionary limits of enhancement; Enhancement and therapy: is it possible to draw a line?; On the argument that enhancement is cheating; Psychiatric nosology and cognitive enhancement; Will cognitive enhancement lead to more well-being? The case of people with disabilities; The Legal Aspects of Cognitive Enhancement Legal regulations on cognitive enhancement practices; Students and smart drugs: empirical research can shed light on enhancement enthusiasm; Lessons for enhancement form the history of cocaine and amphetamine use; Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions;
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