Andrew Fenton completed his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Alberta in 2007. Since late 2006 he has been a member of the research team, and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at Novel Tech Ethics. Fenton’s research interests include the nature and extent of cognitive diversity in humans, as well as other animals, and how this ought to impact societal approaches to difference in cognitive capacities. The latter interest has lead him to explore not only some of the assumptions or arguments that give rise to seeing certain humans (e.g., autistic individuals) as 'dysfunctional' but to problematizing judgments or descriptions that highlight difference to the detriment of accepting variety. Fenton's other research interests include changing views of embodiment that arise, or are perceived to arise, from current work in neuroprostheses; problems associated with neurocentric views of mind (e.g., the conflation of 'brain reading' and 'mind reading,' challenges from embodied cognition); and the potential contributions Buddhist philosophies can make to neuroethics.

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