This book provides informed-by-experience contributions from Latin-American-based researchers on the debate about how to protect citizens from the risks raised by neurotechnological applications. Written by researchers in philosophy, law, psychology, and medical sciences, the chapters of this book report on their individual experiences and case studies. They offer a timely snapshot of practical, conceptual, and legal ideas and challenges emerged in Latin American countries, which may inspire researchers and professionals all over the world.
1.Towards a Contextualized Examination of the Impact of
Neurotechnological Development in Life and Society: Conceptual and Practical
Lessons.- 2.Free Will Skepticism, Neurorights, and Coercive Moral
Neuroenhancements: An Approach from Neuroabolitionism.- 3.Neurotechnologies,
Human Rights and Criminal Law.- 4.Personal Identity and Personality
Neurorights: Reconceptualize to Protect.- 5.Deconstructing the Mind:
Neurotechnology, Mental Privacy, and the Case for Neurorights.- 6.Criminal
Law, Prognosis of Criminal Behavior, Neuroscience and the Case of
Psychopathology.- 7.Neurotechnologies and Inequality: Insights from Latin
America.- 8.Advances Towards a Legal Theory of Neurolaw Based on the Case of
Mexico.- 9.The Right to Health in Brazil and The Prospects for Using
Neurotechnology.- 10.Neuroscience, Neuroprotection, and Neurorights: Human
Brain Rights and the Brazilian Constitutional Advances.- 11.Neural Data and
Neuroprotection in the Chilean Constitution Reform Bill: Critical
Considerations.- 12.A Situated Approach to Neurorights Legislation in Chile.-
13.Understanding Consent: Challenges in the Age of Neurotechnologies.-
14.Principles of Research with Neurotechnologies and Artificial
Intelligence: A Comparative Analysis of Latin American and European Laws.-
15.AI and Neurotechnology Regulation in Chile: A Comparative Case Analysis.-
16.Neurotechnological Progress and the Quest for Contextualized Regulations.
Pablo López-Silva is Professor of Psychology (School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences), and Research Professor (Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Philosophy) at the Universidad de Valparaķso, Chile. After earning undergraduate and professional degrees in psychology in Chile, he completed an MRes and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK. Currently, he is also a Young Research Fellow at the Millennium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality (MIDAP-Chile), a Research Fellow at the Valparaķso Institute for Complex Systems, Researcher at the Universidad de Valparaķso Research Centre for Cognition and Language Development, and International Partner at the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care at St Catherines College, University of Oxford, UK.
