Overview
- 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
About the editors
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