Evaluating Ethical Frameworks for the Assessment of Human Cognitive Enhancement Applications.
Forsberg, Ellen-Marie.; Shelley-Egan, Clare.; Thorstensen, Erik.; Landeweerd, Laurens.; Hofmann, Bjorn.
2017
B1-5802
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Title
Evaluating Ethical Frameworks for the Assessment of Human Cognitive Enhancement Applications.
Author
Forsberg, Ellen-Marie.
ISBN
9783319538235 (electronic book)
3319538233 (electronic book)
3319538225
9783319538228
Publication Details
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (68 pages).
Call Number
B1-5802
Dewey Decimal Classification
100
Summary
This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. This book takes as its departure point the entrenched philosophical debate between opponents and proponents of HCE and the increased feasibility of some applications of HCE. Recent calls for policy-making in the area of human enhancement reflect the need to find a balance between addressing current ethical issues and issues that are more speculative in nature or are underpinned by abstract philosophical concepts. Practical ethical approaches for policy or decision-making should enable the development of an evidence base for the risks and benefits of HCE applications. Moreover, such practical approaches should also incorporate a broader range of value bases that would facilitate convergence regarding certain decisions and judgements. This book identifies and evaluate tools that help us to go beyond polarised philosophical debates in order to assist practical decision makers in concrete ethical deliberation and decision-making. The focus is on systematic methods with which to identify relevant ethical values and assess the impacts of an HCE application on those values in order to facilitate decision-making regarding the ethical acceptability or desirability of the application.
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Shelley-Egan, Clare.
Thorstensen, Erik.
Landeweerd, Laurens.
Hofmann, Bjorn.
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SpringerBriefs in ethics.
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Introduction
Ethical tools as vehicles for practical, ethical dialogue
Ethical concerns: cognitive enhancing drugs and noninvasive brain stimulation
Methodology
Cognitive enhancing drugs
Risk and efficacy
Authenticity and naturalness
Fairness and personal achievement
Distributive justice
Coercion
Noninvasive brain stimulation
Ethical issues specific to transcranial direct current stimulation
Further arguments in favour of cognitive enhancement
Frameworks relevant for assessing HCE applications
Principle based ethics
The ethical matrix
The ETICA framework
Anticipatory ethics for emerging technologies
Ethical Technology Assessment
Ethical Constructive Technology Assessment
Ethical Impact Assessment
The adequacy of the frameworks for ethical assessment of HCE applications
Principle based ethics
The ethical matrix
The ETICA framework
Anticipatory ethics for emerging technologies
Ethical Technology Assessment
Ethical Constructive Technology Assessment
Ethical Impact Assessment
Summary
Some final reflections
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References.

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