Extended mind and cognitive enhancement: moral aspects of cognitive artifacts

Richard Heersmink

doi:10.1007/s11097-015-9448-5

Extended mind and cognitive enhancement: moral aspects of cognitive artifacts

Richard Heersmink

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-32
Number of pages	16
Journal	Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-015-9448-5
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cognitive artifacts
Cognitive enhancement
Cognitive scaffolding
Distributed cognition
Extended mind
Material culture
Neuroethics

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