Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

Copyright © 2010 The Authors

Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

Editor(s): Eva Feder Kittay, Licia Carlson

Published Online: 18 AUG 2010 05:38AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405198288

Online ISBN: 9781444322781

DOI: 10.1002/9781444322781

Series Editor(s): Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero

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Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability

  • Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer
  • Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under the rubric of cognitive disability
  • Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mental retardation, and autism, as well as issues such as care, personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Chapter 1

      Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive Disability (pages 1–25)

      Licia Carlson and Eva Feder Kittay

  3. Part 1: Intellectual Disability: The Medical Model and beyond

    1. Chapter 2

      The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States (pages 26–54)

      Jeffrey P. Brosco

    2. Chapter 3

      Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of Moral Personhood (pages 55–73)

      James C. Harris

  4. Part 2: Justice

    1. Chapter 4

      The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities (pages 74–95)

      Martha Nussbaum

    2. Chapter 5

      Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response to Martha Nussbaum (pages 97–109)

      Michael BéRubé

    3. Chapter 6

      Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities (pages 111–125)

      Cynthia A. Stark

    4. Chapter 7

      Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities (pages 127–146)

      Sophia Isako Wong

  5. Part 3: Care

    1. Chapter 8

      Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals (pages 147–159)

      Jonathan Wolff

    2. Chapter 9

      Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia (pages 161–169)

      Hilde Lindemann

    3. Chapter 10

      Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia (pages 171–182)

      Bruce Jennings

  6. Part 4: Agency

    1. Chapter 11

      Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden of Disease (pages 183–199)

      Daniel Wikler

    2. Chapter 12

      Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability (pages 201–223)

      David Shoemaker

    3. Chapter 13

      Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation (pages 225–236)

      James Lindemann Nelson

    4. Chapter 14

      Thinking about the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities (pages 237–259)

      Leslie P. Francis and Anita Silvers

  7. Part 5: Speaking about Cognitive Disability

    1. Chapter 15

      How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role for Stories (pages 260–278)

      Ian Hacking

    2. Chapter 16

      The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism: Reflections on Ian Hacking (pages 279–292)

      Victoria McGeer

    3. Chapter 17

      The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Dis/ability (pages 293–313)

      Anna Stubblefield

    4. Chapter 18

      Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy (pages 315–329)

      Licia Carlson

  8. Part 6: Personhood

    1. Chapter 19

      Speciesism and Moral Status (pages 330–344)

      Peter Singer

    2. Chapter 20

      Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement (pages 345–367)

      Jeff McMahan

    3. Chapter 21

      Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux (pages 369–392)

      Agnieszka Jaworska

    4. Chapter 22

      The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield (pages 393–413)

      Eva Feder Kittay

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      Index (pages 414–426)

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