Taking The Measure Of Autonomy
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Taking the Measure of Autonomy
Author | : Suzy Killmister |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781351792509 |
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This book takes a radically different approach to the concept of autonomy. Killmister defends a theory of autonomy that is four-dimensional and constituted by what she calls ‘self-definition,’ ‘self-realisation,’ ‘self-unification,’ and 'self-constitution.' While sufficiently complex to inform a full range of social applications, this four-dimensional theory is nonetheless unified through the simple idea that autonomy can be understood in terms of self-governance. The ‘self’ of self-governance occupies two distinct roles: the role of ‘personal identity’ and the role of ‘practical agency.’ In each of these roles, the self is responsible for both taking on, and then honouring, a wide range of commitments. One of the key benefits of this theory is that it provides a much richer measure not just of how autonomous an agent is, but also the shape—or degree—of her autonomy. Taking the Measure of Autonomy will be of keen interest to professional philosophers and students across social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and action theory who are working on autonomy.
Assessment and Autonomy in Language Learning
Author | : C. Everhard,L. Murphy |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2015-03-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781137414380 |
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This book examines this contested relationship between assessment and autonomy from a number of perspectives in a variety of Higher Education language-learning contexts in Europe and the Far East. The contributors to the book describe research into assessment both for and as autonomy, as well as approaches to the assessment of autonomy itself.
Energy Autonomy
Author | : Benoit Boutaud |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2022-09-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781786308344 |
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Energy autonomy is an emerging concept that is, as yet, poorly identified in France. It can mean taking ownership of certain issues related to energy, its production, or, indeed, becoming self-sufficient, and it can apply equally to individuals, communities and buildings. While there are numerous new developments – renewable energies, smart grids and self-consumption – it is becoming difficult to know what this idea of “autonomy” covers, just as it is difficult to define “independence” and “self-sufficiency”, which are often associated with it. However, these three concepts are key to thinking about the energy system and deciding its future. Covering distinct ideas, they are often reduced to economic and productive factors. This ambiguity in their meanings is responsible for the misunderstandings, delusions and obstacles that hamper the implementation of the energy transition. This book deconstructs the common idea of autonomy in favor of a set of more operational concepts. It demonstrates that these ideas are not interchangeable but rather represent practical and constructive tools for action. The world of energy is changing, and therefore we must rethink energy autonomy.
Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression
Author | : Marina A.L. Oshana |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781135036096 |
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Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.
Regulatory Autonomy and International Trade in Services
Author | : Bregt Natens |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781785364310 |
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This book considers how the interplay between multilateral and preferential liberalisation of trade in services increasingly raises concerns, both from the perspective of the beneficiaries of such liberalisation (whose rights are uncertain) and that of regulators (whose regulatory autonomy is constrained). The author shows how these concerns lead to vast underutilisation of, and strong prejudices against, the benefits of services liberalisation. The book meticulously analyses and compares the EU's obligations under the GATS and the services chapters of several RTAs to finally assess the merits of the raised concerns.
Autonomy and the Self
Author | : Michael Kühler,Nadja Jelinek |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-11-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789400747890 |
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This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions of an agent’s personal autonomy and the constitution of her self in light of two influential background assumptions: a libertarian thesis according to which it is essential for personal autonomy to be able to choose freely how one’s self is shaped, on the one hand, and a line of thought following especially the seminal work of Harry Frankfurt according to which personal autonomy necessarily rests on an already sufficiently shaped self, on the other hand. Given this conceptual framework, a number of influential aspects within current debate can be addressed in a new and illuminating light: accordingly, the volume’s contributions range from 1) discussing fundamental conceptual interconnections between personal autonomy and freedom of the will, 2) addressing the exact role and understanding of different personal traits, e.g. Frankfurt’s notion of volitional necessities, commitments to norms and ideals, emotions, the phenomenon of weakness of will, and psychocorporeal aspects, 3) and finally taking into account social influences, which are discussed in terms of their ability to buttress, to weaken, or even to serve as necessary preconditions of personal autonomy and the forming of one’s self. The volume thus provides readers with an extensive and most up-to-date discussion of various influential strands of current philosophical debate on the topic. It is of equal interest to all those already engaged in the debate as well as to readers trying to get an up-to-date overview or looking for a textbook to use in courses.
Respect for Autonomy and Technological Risk
Author | : Lotte Asveld |
Publsiher | : 3TU Ethics |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789038612874 |
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Creating Human Nature
Author | : Benjamin Gregg |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2022-10-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781108841160 |
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Introduces the new field of 'political bioethics,' focusing on the peculiarly political questions posed by human genetic engineering.