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Autonomy and metrics of autonomy
Annual Reviews in Control, 2020Abstract The quest for autonomy has been a pervasive theme in human culture through-out history. In this paper a general definition of autonomous systems is presented and discussed that leads naturally to the establishment of metrics to measure the level of autonomy of a system.
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Philosophical Explorations, 2002
Abstract Among the numerous conceptions of autonomy, three are particularly important: Kant's notion of humans' being subject, and subject only, to moral laws they gave themselves, Frankfurt's idea of persons' willing and acting deriving from the essential character of their wills, and the popular conception of persons' being master over whether others
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Abstract Among the numerous conceptions of autonomy, three are particularly important: Kant's notion of humans' being subject, and subject only, to moral laws they gave themselves, Frankfurt's idea of persons' willing and acting deriving from the essential character of their wills, and the popular conception of persons' being master over whether others
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The Value of Autonomy and Autonomy of the Will
Ethics, 2006It is a commonplace that ‘autonomy’ has several different senses in contemporary moral and political discussion. The term’s original meaning was political: a right assumed by states to administer their own affairs. It was not until the nineteenth century that ‘autonomy’ came (in English) to refer also to the conduct of individuals, and even then there ...
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Nursing Forum, 1984
“…if every professional in the organization exercised complete autonomy, that is, exercised self-government without outside control, the organization would, indeed, collapse.”
E K, Singleton, F C, Nail
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“…if every professional in the organization exercised complete autonomy, that is, exercised self-government without outside control, the organization would, indeed, collapse.”
E K, Singleton, F C, Nail
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1960
(1960). The autonomy of ethics. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 199-206.
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(1960). The autonomy of ethics. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 199-206.
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Communications of the ACM, 2011
Self-driving cars are inching closer to the assembly line, thanks to promising new projects from Google and the European Union.
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Self-driving cars are inching closer to the assembly line, thanks to promising new projects from Google and the European Union.
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Kantian Autonomy and Contemporary Ideas of Autonomy
2012Abstract Kant argued that autonomy of the will is a necessary presupposition of all morality. His idea of autonomy is abstract, foundational, normative, and a key to his defense of the rationality of moral commitment. In contemporary ethics philosophers often appeal to autonomy, more specifically, as a moral right to make one’s own ...
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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2005
Individual autonomy is a prominent value in Western medicine and medical ethics, and there it is often accepted that the only way to pay proper respect to autonomy is to let the patients themselves determine what is good for them. Adopting this approach has, however, given rise to some unwanted results, thus motivating a quest for an objective ...
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Individual autonomy is a prominent value in Western medicine and medical ethics, and there it is often accepted that the only way to pay proper respect to autonomy is to let the patients themselves determine what is good for them. Adopting this approach has, however, given rise to some unwanted results, thus motivating a quest for an objective ...
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