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Against Strong Ethical Parity: Situated Cognition Theses and Transcranial Brain Stimulation

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2017
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Title
Against Strong Ethical Parity: Situated Cognition Theses and Transcranial Brain Stimulation
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00171
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Authors

Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs

Abstract

According to a prominent suggestion in the ethics of transcranial neurostimulation the effects of such devices can be treated as ethically on par with established, pre-neurotechnological alterations of the mind. This parity allegedly is supported by situated cognition theories showing how external devices can be part of a cognitive system. This article will evaluate this suggestion. It will reject the claim, that situated cognition theories support ethical parity. It will however point out another reason, why external carriers or modifications of the mental might come to be considered ethically on par with internal carriers. Section "Why Could There Be Ethical Parity between Neural Tissue and External Tools?" presents the ethical parity theses between external and internal carriers of the mind as well as neurotechnological alterations and established alterations. Section "Extended, Embodied, Embedded: Situated Cognition as a Relational Thesis" will elaborate the different situated cognition approaches and their relevance for ethics. It will evaluate, whether transcranial stimulation technologies are plausible candidates for situated cognition theses. Section "On the Ethical Relevance of Situated Cognition Theses" will discuss criteria for evaluating whether a cognitive tool is deeply embedded with a cognitive system and apply these criteria to transcranial brain stimulation technologies. Finally it will discuss the role diverse versions of situated cognition theory can play in the ethics of altering mental states, especially the ethics of transcranial brain stimulation technologies.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 20%
Other 1 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 10%
Student > Master 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Unknown 3 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 20%
Psychology 1 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 10%
Social Sciences 1 10%
Neuroscience 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 40%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2017.
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#13,716,130
of 23,963,552 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#3,790
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#152,998
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#118
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