Neuro-ProsthEthics: Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition: 9 (Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie, 9) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 366268361X ISBN 13: 9783662683613

Publisher: J.B. Metzler, 2024

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: J.B. Metzler
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 366268361X
• ISBN 13: 9783662683613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Heinrichs Jan-Hendrik, Beck Birgit, Friedrich Orsolya