Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’

Sjors Ligthart; Marcello Ienca; Gerben Meynen; Fruzsina Molnar-Gabor; Roberto Andorno; Christoph Bublitz; Paul Catley; Lisa Claydon; Thomas Douglas; Nita Farahany; Joseph J. Fins; Sara Goering; Pim Haselager; Fabrice Jotterand; Andrea Lavazza; Allan McCay; Abel Wajnerman Paz; Stephen Rainey; Jesper Ryberg; Philipp Kellmeyer

doi:10.1017/S0963180123000245

Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’

Sjors Ligthart, Marcello Ienca, Gerben Meynen, Fruzsina Molnar-Gabor, Roberto Andorno, Christoph Bublitz, Paul Catley, Lisa Claydon, Thomas Douglas, Nita Farahany, Joseph J. Fins, Sara Goering, Pim Haselager, Fabrice Jotterand, Andrea Lavazza, Allan McCay, Abel Wajnerman Paz, Stephen Rainey, Jesper Ryberg, Philipp Kellmeyer^*

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Moral and Political Philosophy

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The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty – often framed as “neurorights” in ethical, legal, and policy discussions. Several states are now looking at including neurorights into their constitutional legal frameworks, and international institutions and organizations, such as UNESCO and the Council of Europe, are taking an active interest in developing international policy and governance guidelines on this issue. However, in many discussions of neurorights the philosophical assumptions, ethical frames of reference and legal interpretation are either not made explicit or conflict with each other. The aim of this multidisciplinary work is to provide conceptual, ethical, and legal foundations that allow for facilitating a common minimalist conceptual understanding of mental privacy, mental integrity, and cognitive liberty to facilitate scholarly, legal, and policy discussions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	461-481
Number of pages	21
Journal	Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Volume	32
Issue number	4
Early online date	15 May 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180123000245
Publication status	Published - Oct 2024

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Funders	Funder number
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
European Commission
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	VI.C.201.067
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico	INICIACIÓN 11220327
Seventh Framework Programme	201067
Klaus Tschira Stiftung	00.001.2019
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	819757

Keywords

cognitive liberty
mental integrity
mental privacy
Neurorights
neurotechnology

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Ligthart, S., Ienca, M., Meynen, G., Molnar-Gabor, F., Andorno, R., Bublitz, C., Catley, P., Claydon, L., Douglas, T., Farahany, N., Fins, J. J., Goering, S., Haselager, P., Jotterand, F., Lavazza, A., McCay, A., Paz, A. W., Rainey, S., Ryberg, J., & Kellmeyer, P. (2024). Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 32(4), 461-481. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180123000245

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