title: Metacognition and reasoning.
abstract: This article considers the cognitive architecture of human meta-reasoning: that is, metacognition concerning one's own reasoning and decision-making. The view we defend is that meta-reasoning is a cobbled-together skill comprising diverse self-management strategies acquired through individual and cultural learning. These approximate the monitoring-and-control functions of a postulated adaptive system for metacognition by recruiting mechanisms that were designed for quite other purposes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Logan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carruthers
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011340:Problem Solving