Cognitive Enhancement

Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor & Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including moral enhancement, neurotechnologies and human identity, the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry, medical professionalism, and moral and political philosophy. Veljko Dubljevic, PhD, DPhil, is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neuroethics research unit at IRCM and McGill University in Montreal, and an associate member of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. He obtained a PhD in political science (University of Belgrade), and after studying bioethics, philosophy and neuroscience (University of Tübingen), he obtained a doctorate in philosophy (University of Stuttgart). His primary research focuses on ethics of neuroscience and technology, and neuroscience of ethics. He has over 30 publications in moral, legal and political philosophy and in neuroethics.

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