Abstract Courts are often criticised as undemocratic. The backlash against international courts in the last decade is also partly driven by this concern. Human rights courts’ legitimacy particularly challenged because they aim to protect human very states that need comply with and implement judgements. Therefore, several have developed mechanisms of deference states. One especially interesting ...

Abstract Today, data and intervening digital media provide critical lines of communication with our social business connections. Even those we know personally will typically connect to us via means. As a consequence, the space add third dimension individual: are now mind, body digitality. This essay considers how digitality affects outcomes for individual by exploring mechanisms influence. By u...

Assistive robotics aims at developing solutions (mechatronic devices, systems and technologies) to assist and interact with individuals with reduced motor or cognitive abilities in order to increase their autonomy in a personal environment. Rehabilitation robotics proposes similar solutions for assisted therapy and objective functional assessment of these patients usually in a clinical context ...

This metatheoretical paper investigates mind wandering from the perspective of philosophy of mind. It has two central claims. The first is that, on a conceptual level, mind wandering can be fruitfully described as a specific form of mental autonomy loss. The second is that, given empirical constraints, most of what we call "conscious thought" is better analyzed as a subpersonal process that mor...

Emerging reprogenetic technologies may radically change how humans reproduce in the not-so-distant future. One foreseeable consequence of disruptive innovations procreative domain is an increase reproductive autonomy intended parents. Regarding prospective parental liberty enhancing non-health–related traits offspring, one controversy has particularly dominated literature. Does parents' choice ...

OBJECTIVE To examine functional performance, participation and autonomy after discharge from prosthetic rehabilitation and to identify the barriers and facilitators affecting these outcomes. DESIGN Concurrent mixed-methods design. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected at discharge from rehabilitation, and 3 and 6 months later. The data were integrated during analysis. SUBJECTS Th...

Introduction: In Europe the concepts of ‘functioning/disability’ and ‘autonomy/dependency’ deserve special interest from the point of view of medical ontology. While Functioning/Disability are concepts defined at the WHO International Classification of Functioning (ICF), the autonomy/dependency pair is not even mentioned at this classification system. Description: The Council of Europe has defi...