Cyborg Rights - Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law

This book explores important ethical, legal, and rights-related ramifications of the hypothesis of extended cognition and the extended mind thesis. It highlights significant threats associated with technologies specifically dedicated to cognitive and mental extension, and examines the possible means for dealing with them.

List of contents

1. Stage Setting 2. Cyborg Minds 3. Extended Mental Privacy 4. Extended Mental Integrity 5. Extended Personal Assault: Addendum 6. Exit Stage

About the author

S. Orestis Palermos is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece, specializing 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.

Product details

• Authors: S. Orestis Palermos, S. Orestis (University of Ioannina Palermos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032957548
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295754-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law