Consideration of Context and Meanings of Neuro- Cognitive Enhancement: The Importance of a Principled, Internationally Capable Neuroethics

摘要

Conrad, Humphries, and Chaterjee (2019) have examined and analyzed public opinions about cognitive enhancement (CE) for various purposes. They gather good evidence that framing metaphors and contexts of discourse have significant influence on social attitudes toward the use of CEs in varied circumstances. We support this sort of empirical study, and find its main results to be plausible and unsurprising. Judgments about CEs are formed within both personal and social contexts, and assessments of CEs must take contexts of capability and performance into account (Mihailov and Savulescu 2018; Shook and Giordano 2014; Shook et al. 2014).