
Cyborg Rights
Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law
S. Orestis Palermos(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2025
Book
Hardback
132 pages
978-1-032-95754-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the ethical, legal, and rights-related ramifications of the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis. Focusing on technologies designed to extend our cognitive and mental capacities, it highlights serious threats associated with their development and deployment-and examines potential strategies for addressing them.
The discussion begins with an accessible introduction to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis, responding to pressing objections and arguing that humans likely already are-or will soon become-cyborgs. Far from science fiction, the rapid advancement of extension technologies-such as invasive brain-computer interfaces-brings this scenario, and its disruptive consequences across ethics, rights, and the law, ever closer to reality. To underscore the stakes, the book focuses on key concerns relating to mental privacy, mental integrity, and extended forms of assault. It also outlines the values and factors we must consider as we transition into a world where the boundaries of the mind are increasingly fluid. Crucially, it argues that both legal and technological safeguards can be developed to mitigate the most troubling effects of cognitive and mental extension.
Cyborg Rights is the first book to offer a systematic analysis of this emerging topic, situated at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, ethics, and philosophy of law.
The discussion begins with an accessible introduction to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis, responding to pressing objections and arguing that humans likely already are-or will soon become-cyborgs. Far from science fiction, the rapid advancement of extension technologies-such as invasive brain-computer interfaces-brings this scenario, and its disruptive consequences across ethics, rights, and the law, ever closer to reality. To underscore the stakes, the book focuses on key concerns relating to mental privacy, mental integrity, and extended forms of assault. It also outlines the values and factors we must consider as we transition into a world where the boundaries of the mind are increasingly fluid. Crucially, it argues that both legal and technological safeguards can be developed to mitigate the most troubling effects of cognitive and mental extension.
Cyborg Rights is the first book to offer a systematic analysis of this emerging topic, situated at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, ethics, and philosophy of law.
Reviews / Votes
"Palermos offers a timely and critical contribution to the interdisciplinary field encompassing philosophy, technology, ethics, and law. Through compelling arguments, this book prompts a necessary re-evaluation of how emerging technologies and advancements will unexpectedly reshape social structures and legal frameworks."Andrea Lavazza, University of Pavia, Italy
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-95754-8 (9781032957548)
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Person
S. Orestis Palermos is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece, specialising in contemporary analytic philosophy. With a background in chemical engineering, he earned an MSc and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and has held academic positions in the UK. He has published in prominent philosophy journals and co-edited Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies, Extended Epistemology, and Socially Extended Epistemology.
Content
1. Stage Setting 2. Cyborg Minds 3. Extended Mental Privacy 4. Extended Mental Integrity 5. Extended Personal Assault: Addendum 6. Exit Stage