Could Explicit Training in Metacognition Improve Learners’ Autonomy and Responsibility?

Ethical Decision Making in Robots: Autonomy, Trust and Responsibility - Autonomy Trust and Responsibility

Autonomous robots such as self-driving cars are already able to make decisions that have ethical consequences. As such machines make increasingly complex and important decisions, we will need to know that their decisions are trustworthy and ethically justified. Hence we will need them to be able to explain the reasons for these decisions: ethical decision-making requires that decisions be expla...

Autonomy, criminal responsibility, and competence.

Recently, Juth and Lorentzon proposed to replace the concept of free will, as considered relevant in criminal responsibility, with the concept of autonomy. In addition, they conceived of the assessment of criminal responsibility in terms of a decision-making process. In this article, I suggest that, based on these characterizations, there is an essential similarity between assessments of crimin...

Exercise Training Could Improve the Cognitive Function in the Elderly

Increasing the lifespan of a population is often a marker of a country’s success. With the percentage of the population over 65 year of age increasing, maintaining the health and independence of this population is an ongoing concern. Advancing age is associated with an increasing in cognitive function that affects quality of life ultimately. Understanding potential adverse effects of aging on b...

How learners share and construct metacognition in social interaction?

The aim of this exploratory study was to examine how the six matched triads of pre-service teachers share and construct metacognition in mathematical problem solving in WorkMates learning environment having or having not a stimulated recall group interview. More specifically, we examined socially shared metacognition and we performed the qualitative content analysis of the discussion forum data...

Nietzsche's Autonomy, Responsibility, and Will Unification