BIBLIOS

Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Self-Melioration, Autonomy and Music-Enriched Self-Control: On Enhancing Children’s Attention

Participants in the publication
Alexander Matthias Gerner (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CFCUL

Summary
This paper dwells on the question of how we can enhance perspectives on the enhancement of attention in children. By shifting the neuro-enhancement of attention debate from the field of (pediatric) biomedicine into the area of philoso- phy of technology of control and philosophy of attention, I render two concepts operative for the neuroethical debate on enhancing children’s attention in self- melioration: control and autonomy in attention enhancement. The shaping of a self entails three things: First, individual work on personality traits. Second, the cultural notion of collective formation in a world shaped by others. Third, it includes self-melioration (Selbstverbesserung) that contains both terms of self- formation and Kipke’s narrow account of Neuro-enhancement. Concerning attention enhancements in children music enrichment as well as mathematical skill-formation will be analysed briefly.

Editor(s)
Nagel, Saskia


Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Where published
Advances in Neuroethics,Shaping Children

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 2522-5677,2522-5685
ISBN - 9783030106768,9783030106775

Address
Cham, Switzerland

Publisher
Springer International Publishing

Collection
Advances in Neuroethics



Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10677-5_11
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10677-5_11

Keywords
Attention Children Neuroethics Autonomy Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement