TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wagner, Nils-Frederic
A2  - Wagner, Nils-Frederic
A2  - Robinson, Jeffrey
A2  - Wiebking, Christine
DB  - BISp
DP  - BISp
KW  - Doping
KW  - Drogenkonsum
KW  - Drogenmissbrauch
KW  - Druck
KW  - Gehirn
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Hirndoping
KW  - Identität
KW  - Kognition
KW  - Leistung, kognitive
KW  - Leistungsdruck
KW  - Leistungsfähigkeit, geistige
KW  - Leistungsfähigkeit, psychomotorische
KW  - Leistungssteigerung
KW  - Moral
KW  - Neurologie
KW  - Selbstdisziplin
KW  - Technologie
KW  - Tomographie
KW  - Wettbewerb
LA  - eng
TI  - The ethics of neuroenhancement : smart drugs, competition and society
TT  - Die Ethik des Neuroenhancements : smarte Drogen, Wettbewerb und Gesellschaft
PY  - 2015
N2  - According to several recent studies, a big chunk of college students in North America and Europe uses so called ‘smart drugs' to enhance their cognitive capacities aiming at improving their academic performance. With these practices, there comes a certain moral unease. This unease is shared by many, yet it is difficult to pinpoint and in need of justification. Other than simply pointing to the medical risks coming along with using non-prescribed medication, the salient moral question is whether these practices are troubling in and of themselves. In due consideration of empirical insights into the concrete effects of smart drugs on brain and behavior, our attempt is to articulate wherein this moral unease consists and to argue for why the authors believe cognitive enhancement to be morally objectionable. The authors will contend that the moral problem with these practices lies less in the end it seeks, than in the underlying human disposition it expresses and promotes. Some might ask, what is wrong with molding our cognitive capacities to achieve excellence, get a competitive edge, or, as the whim takes us? In all of these occasions, the usage of smart drugs serves a certain goal, a telos. The goal is, broadly speaking, this: outsmarting opponents in an arms race for limited resources and thereby yielding a competitive edge. In plain words: competition is valued higher than cooperation or solidarity. What is wrong with striving for this goal? The authors submit that the question whether people really want to live in a society that promotes the mentality ‘individual competition over societal cooperation' deserves serious consideration. In developing their answer, the authors draw on an ‘Ethics of Constraint' framework, arguing that widespread off-label use of smart drugs bears the risk of negative neural/behavioral consequences for the individual that might, in the long run, be accompanied by changing social value orientations for the worse.
L2  - https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/article/full-text-html/124864
L2  - https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/article/full-text-pdf/124864
L2  - https://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijt.2015010101
DO  - 10.4018/ijt.2015010101
SP  - S. 1-20
SN  - 1947-3451
JO  - International journal of technoethics
IS  - 1
VL  - 6
M3  - Elektronische Ressource (online)
M3  - Gedruckte Ressource
ID  - PU201801000255
ER  -