Neuro-Prosthethics: Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition

ISBN-13: 9783662683613 / Angielski

Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs; Birgit Beck; Orsolya Friedrich

O autorze

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.

Blurb

This book explores the ethics of technology shaping how we think and act. Situated cognition theories have alerted cognitive scientists to the vast array of technologies interacting with our cognition and actions. Some of these technologies are deeply integrated with our bodies, some highly interactive. Some of their changes are gradual, others sudden and transformative. Some can revolutionize our cognition and actions. This book sheds light on the ethical implications of applying situated cognition theories to real-world situations, a topic that has received too little attention until now.