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Neuro-ProsthEthics

Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition

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  • May 2024

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Editors:
  1. Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs

    1. Ethik in den Neurowissenschaften, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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  2. Birgit Beck

    1. FG Ethik und Technikphilosophie, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Orsolya Friedrich

    1. Fakultät KSW, Institut für Philosophie, FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany

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  • First volume on the ethical dimension of situated cognition approaches
  • The ethical consequences of technological scaffolds or extenders as parts of one’s body
  • Combines ethics with technology, medicine and cognitive science

Part of the book series: Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie (TPAHT, volume 9)

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Keywords

  • Neuroethics
  • Extended Mind
  • Active Externalism
  • Autonomous Extenders
  • Responsibility
  • Autonomy
  • Prostheses
  • Implants
  • Machine Learning
  • Enhancement

About this book

The volume focusses on the ethical dimensions of the technological scaffold embedding human thought and action, which has been brought to attention of the cognitive sciences by situated cognition theories. There is a broad spectrum of technologies co-realising or enabling and enhancing human cognition and action, which vary in the degree of bodily integration, interactivity, adaptation processes, of reliance and indispensability etc. This technological scaffold of human cognition and action evolves rapidly. Some changes are continuous, some are eruptive. Technologies that use machine learning e.g. could represent a qualitative leap in the technological scaffolding of human cognition and actions. The ethical consequences of applying situated cognition theories to practical cases had yet to find adequate attention and are elucidated in this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ethik in den Neurowissenschaften, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

    Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs

  • FG Ethik und Technikphilosophie, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Birgit Beck

  • Fakultät KSW, Institut für Philosophie, FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Orsolya Friedrich

About the editors

PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs works as a research scientist in the working group neuroethics and ethics of AI in the Institute für Neuroscience and Medicine 7: Brain and Behaviour of Forschungszentrum Jülich and teaches at RWTH Aachen.
Birgit Beck is professor for Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research and teaching interests include ethics and philosophy of technology, bioethics, animal ethics and food ethics.


Orsolya Friedrich is Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Technology at the Institute of Philosophy at the FernUniversität in Hagen, where she leads an Emmy Noether research group that investigates the characteristics and consequences of novel interactions between humans and machines from a philosophical perspective.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neuro-ProsthEthics

  • Book Subtitle: Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition

  • Editors: Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs, Birgit Beck, Orsolya Friedrich

  • Series Title: Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68361-3Due: 13 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-68362-0Due: 13 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2524-5902

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-5910

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 193

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

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