Main description:

There is a growing literature in neuroethics dealing with cognitive neuro-enhancement for healthy adults. However, discussions on this topic tend to focus on abstract theoretical positions while concrete policy proposals and detailed models are scarce. Furthermore, discussions appear to rely solely on data from the US or UK, while international perspectives are mostly non-existent. This volume fills this gap and addresses issues on cognitive enhancement
comprehensively in three important ways: 1) it examines the conceptual implications stemming from competing points of view about the nature and goals of enhancement; 2) it addresses the ethical, social, and legal implications of neuroenhancement from an international and global perspective including contributions
from scholars in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America; and 3) it discusses and analyzes concrete legal issues and policy options tailored to specific contexts.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
By Fabrice Jotterand and Veljko Dubljevic

PART 1: CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 2: Towards a more banal neuroethics
By Neil Levy

Chapter 3: Why less praise for enhanced performance?
Moving beyond responsibility-shifting, authenticity, and cheating, towards a nature-of-activities approach
By Filippo Santoni de Sio, Nadira Faber, Julian Savulescu, and Nicole A. Vincent

Chapter 4: Moral enhancement, Neuroessentialism, and Moral Content
By Fabrice Jotterand

Chapter 5: Cognitive/neuroenhancement through an Ability Studies Lens
By Gregor Wolbring and Lucy Diep

Chapter 6: Defining Contexts of Cognitive (Performance) Enhancements: Neuroethical Considerations, and Implications for Policy
By John R. Shook and James Giordano

PART 2: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 7: Cognitive enhancement: A South African Perspective
By Dan J. Stein

Chapter 8: Cognitive enhancement: A Confucian perspective from Taiwan
By Kevin Chien-Chang Wu

Chapter 9: Enhancing Cognition in the 'Brain Nation': An Israeli Perspective
By Hillel Braude

Chapter 10: Cognitive Enhancement Down-Under: An Australian Perspective
By Charmaine Jensen, Brad Partridge, Cynthia Forlini, Wayne Hall and Jayne Lucke

Chapter 11: Cognitive Enhancement in Germany: Prevalence, Attitudes, Moral Acceptability, Terms, Legal Status, and the Ethics Debate
by Sebastian Sattler

Chapter 12: Cognitive enhancement in the Netherlands: Practices, public opinion and ethics
By Maartje Schermer

Chapter 13: Cognitive enhancement in Canada: An overview of conceptual and contextual aspects, policy discussions, and academic research
By Eric Racine

Chapter 14: Cognitive enhancement and the leveling of the playing-field: The case of Latin America
By Daniel Loewe

PART 3: LAW AND POLICY OPTIONS
Chapter 15: Regulating Cognitive Enhancement Technologies: Policy Options and Problems
By Robert H. Blank

Chapter 16: Enhancing with Modafinil: Benefiting or harming society?
By Veljko Dubljevic

Chapter 17: Towards an Ethical Framework for Regulating the Market for Cognitive Enhancement Devices
By Hannah Maslen

Chapter 18: A constitutional Right to Use Thought-Enhancing Technology
By Mark Jonathan Blitz

Chapter 19: Drugs, Enhancements & Rights: Ten Points for Lawmakers to Consider
By Jan-Christoph Bublitz

Chapter 20: Cognitive Enhancement in the Courtroom: What can we learn about the ethics of pharmacological cognitive enhancement by looking at judicial cognition?
By Jennifer A. Chandler and Adam M. Dodek

Epilogue: A Feast of Thinking on the Naturalization of Enhancement Neurotechnology
By Judy Illes