Rethinking cognitive enhancement / Ruud ter Meulen, Ahmed Mohammed, and Wayne Hall.
2017
RM334
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Title
Rethinking cognitive enhancement / Ruud ter Meulen, Ahmed Mohammed, and Wayne Hall.
ISBN
9780191835230 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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RM334
Dewey Decimal Classification
615.78
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. This book critically explores and analyses the scientific and ethical debates surrounding cognitive enhancers.
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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 the possibility of producing cognitive and affective improvements in otherwise healthy individuals. This book critically explores and analyses the scientific and ethical debates surrounding cognitive enhancers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 15, 2017).
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Meulen, R. H. J. ter (Ruud H. J.), 1952- editor.
Mohammed, Ahmed, editor.
Hall, Wayne, 1951- editor.
Mohammed, Ahmed, editor.
Hall, Wayne, 1951- editor.
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