Overview
- Discusses the possible threats of misuses of neurotechnology on human rights and mental integrity
- Offers a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion on neurotechnology and its regulation
- Makes proposals to address current ethical and social challenges relating to the use of neurotechnology
Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 49)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Human Nature, Neurotechnologies, and Philosophy: Main Concepts
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Neurotechnologies and Ethics: Main Problems
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Neuroprotection and Human Rights: New Challenges
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Keywords
- Protecting Personal Autonomy
- Mental Privacy
- Neurotechnology and Mental Freedom
- Data Ethics
- Cognitive Liberty
- Human Integrity
- Mental Integrity
- Ethical Use of Neurotechnology
- Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation
- Ethics of Brain Machine Interfaces
- Regulating Artificial Intelligence
- Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
About this book
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology. It starts by offering an overview of fundamental concepts such as mental privacy, personal autonomy, mental integrity, and responsibility, among others. In turn, it discusses the influence of possible misuses or uncontrolled uses of neurotechnology on those concepts, and, more in general, on human rights and equality. Then, it makes some original proposals to deal with the main ethical, legal, and social problems associated to the use of neurotechnology, both in medicine and in everyday life, suggesting possible policies to protect privacy, neural data, and intimacy. Crossing the borders between humanities, natural sciences, bio-medicine, and engineering, and taking into account geographical and cultural differences, this book offers a conceptual debate around policy and decision making concerning some of the key neuroethical challenges of our times. It offers a comprehensive guide to the most important issues of neurojustice and neuroprotection, together with a set of new paradigms to face some of the most urgent neuroethical problems of our times.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pablo López-Silva is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Psychology and Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. He is Young Research Fellow at the Millenium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality (Chile). Pablo López-Silva is MRes and PhD in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK. His areas of research are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Psychopathology, and Neuroethics.
Luca Valera is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Bioethics (School of Medicine), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Moreover, he is Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. He is Ph.D. in Bioethics at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy. His areas of research are Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Bioethics, and Applied Ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protecting the Mind
Book Subtitle: Challenges in Law, Neuroprotection, and Neurorights
Editors: Pablo López-Silva, Luca Valera
Series Title: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94032-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94031-7Published: 02 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94034-8Published: 03 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94032-4Published: 01 March 2022
Series ISSN: 1860-4803
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 177
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bioethics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Medical Law, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Mind