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Autonomous Agents
Alfred Mele examines the concept of self-control on its terms, followed by an examination of its bearing on one's actions, beliefs, and emotions. He considers how, by understanding self-control, man can shed light on autonomous behaviour.
Autonomy
In everyday life, we generally assume that we can make our own decisions on matters which concern our own lives. We assume that a life followed only according to decisions taken by other people, against our will, cannot be a well-lived life – we assume, in other words, that we are and should be autonomous. However, it is equally true that many aspects of our lives are not chosen freely: this is true of social relations and commitments but also of all those situations we simply seem to stumble into, situations which just seem to happen to us. The possibility of both the success of an autonomous life and its failure are part of our everyday experiences. In this brilliant and illuminating boo...
Autonomy: Applications and Implications
This book, edited by Markku Suksi, explores the concept of autonomy from a legal, social, and political perspective. It examines the advantages and legal basis of autonomy, its subjects, and its role in federalism. The book delves into the ethical considerations of minority protection and political ambiguities surrounding autonomy. It also discusses autonomy as a mechanism in territorial conflicts and its application within international law frameworks, particularly in the context of minority rights. Various chapters address the procedural position of autonomous regions in international judicial organs and the entrenchment of autonomy in different geopolitical contexts, such as Italy, Spain, and the UK. The book concludes with discussions on cultural autonomy and its relevance to indigenous peoples, emphasizing the Sami in Finland. It is intended for academics, legal professionals, and policymakers interested in human rights and autonomy.
Building Autonomous Learners
This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore. A total of 15 chapters include some of the latest findings on theory and practical applications alike, prepared by internationally respected researchers in the field of motivation research in education. Each author provides his/her perspective and practical strategies on how to maximize motivation in the classroom. Individual chapters focus on theoretical and practical consi...
The Legal Adaptation Power in China’s Ethnic Autonomous Areas
The book provides a comprehensive analysis of legal adaptation mechanisms within ethnically diverse regions. This scholarly work examines how legal systems are modified to accommodate the unique cultural, social and historical contexts of ethnic autonomous areas while maintaining national legal cohesion. The book explores the theoretical foundations of legal adaptation power, analyzing its constitutional principles including regional ethnic autonomy, ethnic equality and popular sovereignty. It traces the historical evolution of legal adaptation in China and examines current practices across various domains including civil code, criminal law, electoral law and family planning regulations. The...
Assessment and Autonomy in Language Learning
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.
The Logic of Autonomy
Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognise these norms to be valid. But how can one be bound by norms whose validity depends on their being recognised as valid by their addressees? The questions of how autonomous morality and, on this basis, the authoritative character of law can be understood, present persistent puzzles that have been widely discussed, but still await a satisfactory solution. This book presents an analysis of the idea of autonomy as self-legislation and its consequences for law and mo...
Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination
Demands for "autonomy" or minority rights have given rise to conflicts, often violent, in every region of the world and under every political system. Through an analysis of contemporary international legal norms and an examination of several specific case studies—including Hong Kong, India, the transnational problems of the Kurds and Saamis, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the Sudan—this book identifies a framework in which ethnic, religious, and regional conflicts can be addressed.
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2
Great interest is now focused on distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS) as a new strategy for the realization of flexible, robust, and intelligent robots. Inspired by autonomous, decentralized, and self-organizing biological systems, the field of DARS encompasses broad interdisciplinary technologies related not only to robotics and computer engineering but also to biology and psychology. The rapidly growing interest in this new area of research was manifest in the first volume of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, published in 1994. This second volume in the series presents the most recent work by eminent researchers and includes such topics as multirobot control, distributed robotic systems design, self-organizing systems, and sensing and navigation for cooperative robots. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2 is a valuable source for those whose work involves robotics and will be of great interest to those in the fields of artificial intelligence, self-organizing systems, artificial life, and computer science.
Autonomy and the Self
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 contr...
