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Autonomy and metrics of autonomy

Annual Reviews in Control, 2020
Abstract 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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Autonomy, and Then

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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The Value of Autonomy and Autonomy of the Will

Ethics, 2006
It 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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The autonomy of ethics

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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Autonomy In Nursing

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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AUTONOMY AND EMPATHY

Social Philosophy and Policy, 2004
When Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings, and other ethicists of caring draw the contrast between supposedly masculine and supposedly feminine moral thinking, they put such things as justice, autonomy, and rights together under the first rubric and such things as caring, responsibility for others, and connection together under the second.
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