Cognitive enhancement : ethical and policy implications in international perspectives

377 Pages·2016·2.728 MB·English

by  Dubljević, Veljko, Jotterand, Fabrice

Cognitive Enhancement

Cognitive Enhancement
ETHICAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
EDITED BY FABRICE JOTTERAND
and
VELJKO DUBLJEVIC’
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jotterand, Fabrice, 1967- editor. | Dubljević, Veljko.
Title: Cognitive enhancement : ethical and policy implications in international perspectives /
edited by Fabrice Jotterand and Veljko Dubljević.
Description: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037613| ISBN 9780199396818 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780199396825 (online content) | ISBN 9780199396832 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Nootropic agents. | Neurosciences—Moral and ethical aspects. |
Neurosciences—Political aspects.
Classification: LCC RM334 .C65 2016 | DDC 612.8—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037613
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Contents
Acknowledgments  ix
Contributors  xi
1. Introduction  1
Fabrice Jotterand and VelJko d ublJe Vić
Part 1 CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS
2. Toward a More Banal Neuroethics  15
neil le Vy
3. Why Less Praise for Enhanced Performance? Moving Beyond
Responsibility- Shifting, Authenticity, and Cheating Toward
a Nature- of- Activities Approach  27
Filippo Santoni de Sio, nadira S. Faber, Julian SaVuleScu,
and nicole a . Vincent
4. Moral Enhancement, Neuroessentialism, and Moral Content  42
Fabrice Jotterand
5. Cognitive/ Neuroenhancement Through an Ability Studies Lens  57
GreGor WolbrinG and l ucy diep
6. Defining Contexts of Neurocognitive (Performance)
Enhancements: Neuroethical Considerations and Implications
for Policy  76
John r. Shook and JameS Giordano
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Part 2 INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
7. Cognitive Enhancement: A South African Perspective  101
dan J. Stein
8. Cognitive Enhancement: A Confucian Perspective
from Taiwan  111
keVin chien- chanG Wu
9. Enhancing Cognition in the “Brain Nation”: 
An Israeli Perspective  131
hillel b raude
10. Cognitive Enhancement Down- Under: 
An Australian Perspective  147
charmaine JenSen, b rad partridGe, c ynthia Forlini,
Wayne hall, and Jayne l ucke
11. Cognitive Enhancement in Germany: Prevalence, Attitudes, Moral
Acceptability, Terms, Legal Status, and the Ethics Debate  159
SebaStian Sattler
12. Cognitive Enhancement in the Netherlands: Practices, Public
Opinion, and Ethics  181
maartJe Schermer
13. Cognitive Enhancement in Canada: An Overview of Conceptual
and Contextual Aspects, Policy Discussions, and
Academic Research  196
eric racine
14. Cognitive Enhancement and the Leveling of the Playing
Field: The Case of Latin America  219
daniel loe We
Part 3 LAW AND POLICY OPTIONS
15. Regulating Cognitive Enhancement Technologies: Policy Options
and Problems  239
robert h. b lank
Contents vii
16. Enhancing with Modafinil: Benefiting or Harming Society?  259
VelJko dublJeVić
17. Toward an Ethical Framework for Regulating the Market for
Cognitive Enhancement Devices  275
hannah maSlen
18. A Constitutional Right to Use Thought- Enhancing
Technology  293
marc Jonathan blitz
19. Drugs, Enhancements, and Rights: Ten Points for Lawmakers
to Consider  309
Jan- chriStoph bublitz
20. Cognitive Enhancement in the Courtroom: The Ethics
of Pharmacological Enhancement of Judicial Cognition  329
JenniFer a. chandler and adam m. dodek
Epilogue: A Feast of Thinking on the Naturalization
of Enhancement Neurotechnology  346
Judy illeS
Index  351

Acknowledgments
The Editors would like to acknowledge that the International Neuroethics
Society Cognitive Enhancement Affinity Group provided the platform for
discussions that shaped the foundation of this book.
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