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- A. Manneh, Ilana, et al.
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Progression in action for developing chemical knowledge
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we discuss the well-known teaching challenge of how to provide undergraduate students with basic chemistry knowledge without making them experience these basics as meaningless and unintelligible. First, we situate the challenge in a classic dilemma: should we teach the necessary basic facts before the chemical explanations or should the explanations be taught before or in parallel to these facts? Here we draw on examples from interviews with graduate students reflecting on their experiences regarding their studies at the undergraduate level. Second, we suggest a way out of the dilemma, through a shift in perspective from the typical progression of facts and explanations towards a purpose and activity-based progression. We conclude with a discussion of implications of such a shift for university chemistry education together with suggestions for future research.
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- Jebari, Karim A., et al.
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European Public Deliberation on Brain Machine Interface Technology : Five Convergence Seminars
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We hereby present a novel procedure to engage the public in ethical deliberations on the potential impacts of brain machine interface technology. We call this procedure a Convergence seminar, a form of scenario-based group discussion that is founded on the idea of hypothetical retrospection. The theoretical background of this procedure and the results of the five seminars are presented here.
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- Jebari, Karim A.
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Three Kinds of Moral Enhancement
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Moral enhancement, an instance of human enhancement, alters a person’s dispositions, emotions or behavior in order to make that person more moral. I will argue that moral enhancement could be carried out in three different ways. The first strategy, well known from science fiction, is behavioral enhancement. The second strategy, favored by prominent defenders of moral enhancement, is emotional enhancement. The third strategy is the enhancement of moral dispositions, such as empathy and inequity aversion. I will argue that we ought to implement a combination of the second and third strategies. Furthermore, I will argue that the usual arguments against other instances of human enhancement do not apply to moral enhancement, or apply only to the first strategy, behavioral enhancement.
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