(Re-)Redefining Neuroethics to Meet the Challenges of the Future

Cohen, Noa

doi:10.1080/21507740.2023.2257182

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“…As the great financial, technological, and political powers steadily push forward, their incentives enhance already encumbering individual cognitive limitations such as anchoring, limited attention, and memory resources [13,14] to promote a climate of information overload that heeds the acquisition of knowledge. Other underlying causes of current information gaps and knowledge fallacies are deeply rooted in the modern practice of scientific research [15]. Exploring the impact of each of these components on shaping individual choices and behaviors is considered here as essential for addressing the risks associated with misguided decision-making based on unfounded information.…”

Section: The Rise Of Informed Ignorancementioning

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Informed Ignorance as a Form of Epistemic Injustice

Cohen,

Garasic

2024

Philosophies

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Ignorance, or the lack of knowledge, appears to be steadily spreading, despite the increasing availability of information. The notion of informed ignorance herein proposed to describe the widespread position of being exposed to an abundance of information yet lacking relevant knowledge, which is tied to the exponential growth in misinformation driven by technological developments and social media. Linked to many of societies’ most looming catastrophes, from political polarization to the climate crisis, practices related to knowledge and information are deemed some of the most imminent and daunting modern threats, evidenced by the latest report of the World Economic Forum, which has named misinformation the most severe short-term global risk. This paper’s epistemic perspective links the properties of today’s information culture and the ways in which it interacts with individual capacities and limitations in current technological and socio-political contexts. Such a position is analyzed through the lens of epistemic principles as a contemporary epistemic phenotype that emerges from an environment of ill-adapted and excessive information inputs and leads to a distinctive type of social injustice that is primarily epistemic in nature. While equity and accessibility are widely discussed as important contributing factors to epistemic discrepancies, other overlooked but fundamental issues underlying epistemic injustices are considered, such as information manipulation, cognitive limitations, and epistemic degradation. To effectively face this elusive threat, we propose an inclusive viewpoint that harnesses knowledge from cognitive science, science and technology studies, and social epistemology to inform a unifying theory of its main impacts and driving forces. By adjusting a modern epistemic framework to the described phenomena, we intend to contextually outline its trajectory and possible means of containment based on a shared responsibility to maintain ethical epistemic standards. In a time of international unrest and mounting civil acts of violence, it is pertinent to emphasize the ethical principles of knowledge systems and authorities and suggest policy adaptations to maintain a social contract based on the shared values of truth and freedom.

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Section: The Rise Of Informed Ignorancementioning

confidence: 99%