Rethinking cognitive enhancement

by Ter Meulen, R.H.J

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Title Statements

Full title :Rethinking cognitive enhancement / ed. by Ruud ter Meulen, Ahmed Dahir Mohamed, Wayne Hall.

Summary

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 the possibility 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 313 p. : : ill. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198727392, 0198727399
oclc:ocn994811420

Subjects

Cognition -- Effect of drugs on Cognition -- Effets des médicaments Cognition -- Effets des médicaments sur Cognition -- Physiologie Cognition -- physiology Cognitive neuroscience Neurosciences -- Aspect moral Neurosciences -- Moral and ethical aspe… Neurosciences cognitives Psychophysiologie Psychophysiology