TY - JOUR
T1 - Extended mind and cognitive enhancement
T2 - moral aspects of cognitive artifacts
AU - Heersmink, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank the Collective Cognition Team, particularly John Sutton, at the Centre for Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University for funding to write this paper. I also wish to thank Sadjad Soltanzadeh, Regina Fabry, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback on an earlier version of this paper. This paper was presented at the 2015 Australasian Association of Philosophy conference held in Sydney. I like to thank the audience for their questions and feedback.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - This article connects philosophical debates about cognitive enhancement and situated cognition. It does so by focusing on moral aspects of enhancing our cognitive abilities with the aid of external artifacts. Such artifacts have important moral dimensions that are addressed neither by the cognitive enhancement debate nor situated cognition theory. In order to fill this gap in the literature, three moral aspects of cognitive artifacts are singled out: their consequences for brains, cognition, and culture; their moral status; and their relation to personal identity.
AB - This article connects philosophical debates about cognitive enhancement and situated cognition. It does so by focusing on moral aspects of enhancing our cognitive abilities with the aid of external artifacts. Such artifacts have important moral dimensions that are addressed neither by the cognitive enhancement debate nor situated cognition theory. In order to fill this gap in the literature, three moral aspects of cognitive artifacts are singled out: their consequences for brains, cognition, and culture; their moral status; and their relation to personal identity.
KW - Cognitive artifacts
KW - Cognitive enhancement
KW - Cognitive scaffolding
KW - Distributed cognition
KW - Extended mind
KW - Material culture
KW - Neuroethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84948946092&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11097-015-9448-5
DO - 10.1007/s11097-015-9448-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84948946092
SN - 1572-8676
VL - 16
SP - 17
EP - 32
JO - Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
JF - Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
IS - 1
ER -