07) Cognitive Enhancement (Farah)
Improving the cognition of cognitive normal people is one of the most actively discussed topics in neuroethics. This is in part because it is a growing trend, with up to 25% of students on some American college campuses using prescription medication to enhance their academic performance. It is also a nexus where many different ethical issues converge, from the safety and fairness to more abstract considerations such as the short-circuiting of personal agency that some see in popping pills to achieve our goals. In this lecture I survey some of what we know, and some of what we don't know, on the science of cognitive enhancement, some of the current and near-term methods of cognitive enhancement, and some of the key ethical values at stake.
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/Beyond+Therapy+Essential+Sources+of+Concern+PCBE.pdf
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/Better+Brains+by+Martha+Farah.pdf
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/Prozac+as+a+Way+of+Life+By+Carl+Elliot.pdf
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/NLC+Brain+Enhancement+I+-+Cognitive+Enhancement.pdf
Martha J. Farah, Ph.D.
Dr. Farah is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences at Penn. She is interested in a variety of social, legal and ethical issues in neuroscience, including practical issues arising from brain enhancement and brain imaging, and philosophical issues related to personhood and the mind-body problem.
Improving the cognition of cognitive normal people is one of the most actively discussed topics in neuroethics. This is in part because it is a growing trend, with up to 25% of students on some American college campuses using prescription medication to enhance their academic performance. It is also a nexus where many different ethical issues converge, from the safety and fairness to more abstract considerations such as the short-circuiting of personal agency that some see in popping pills to achieve our goals. In this lecture I survey some of what we know, and some of what we don’t know, on the science of cognitive enhancement, some of the current and near-term methods of cognitive enhancement, and some of the key ethical values at stake.
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/Beyond+Therapy+Essential+Sources+of+Concern+PCBE.pdf
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/Better+Brains+by+Martha+Farah.pdf
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/Prozac+as+a+Way+of+Life+By+Carl+Elliot.pdf
https://pennlpscommons.org/system/files/NLC+Brain+Enhancement+I+-+Cognitive+Enhancement.pdf
Martha J. Farah, Ph.D.
Dr. Farah is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences at Penn. She is interested in a variety of social, legal and ethical issues in neuroscience, including practical issues arising from brain enhancement and brain imaging, and philosophical issues related to personhood and the mind-body problem.
