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The Ethics of Neuroscience and National Security

The Ethics of Neuroscience and National Security

Evans, Nicholas G.

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PhilosophyMedical ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138331538
ISBN13: 9781138331532
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 25 2021
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

New advances in neuroscience promise innovations in national security, especially in the areas of law enforcement, intelligence collection, and armed conflict. But ethical questions emerge about how we can, and should, use these innovations. This book draws on the open literature to map the development of neuroscience, particularly through funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in certain areas like behavior prediction, behavior modification, and neuroenhancement, and its use in the creation of novel weapons. It shows how advances in neuroscience and new technologies raise ethical issues that challenge the norms of law enforcement, intelligence collection, and armed conflict, broadly grouped under the term national security. Increasing technological sophistication without attention to ethics, this book argues, risks creating conditions for the development of dual-use technologies that may be prone to misuse, are grounded in an incomplete understanding of the brain, or are based on a limited view of the political contexts in which these technologies arise. A concluding section looks at policy and regulatory options that might promote the benefits of emerging neuroscience, while mitigating attendant risks.

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