Kittay / Carlson Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2279-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, E-Book

Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medicalhistorians, and prominent moral philosophers, CognitiveDisability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses theethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, andmeta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability
* Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medicalhistorians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporaryphilosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and PeterSinger
* Represents the first collection that brings togetherphilosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease,intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under therubric of cognitive disability
* Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mentalretardation, and autism, as well as issues such as care,personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kittay, Eva Feder

Carlson, Licia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Lightof Cognitive Disability (Licia Carlson and Eva FederKittay).
Part 1: Intellectual Disability: The Medical Model andBeyond
2. The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology ofIntellectual Disability in the United States (Jeffrey P.Brosco).
3. Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of MoralPersonhood (James C. Harris).
Part 2: Justice
4. The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities(Martha Nussbaum).
5. Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response toMartha Nussbaum (Michael Bérubé).
6. Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities(Cynthia A. Stark).
7. Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities(Sophia Isako Wong).
Part 3: Care
8. Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals (JonathanWolff).
9. Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time ofDementia (Hilde Lindemann).
10. Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia (BruceJennings).
Part 4: Agency
11. Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden ofDisease (Daniel Wikler).
12. Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability (DavidShoemaker).
13. Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation(James Lindemann Nelson).
14. Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics(or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities (Anita Silversand Leslie Pickering Francis).
Part 5: Speaking About Cognitive Disability
15. How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role forStories (Ian Hacking).
16. The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism: Reflectionson Ian Hacking (Victoria Mcgeer).
17. The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Disability (AnnaStubblefield).
18. Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy(Licia Carlson).
Part 6: Personhood
19. Speciesism and Moral Status (Peter Singer).
20. Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement (JeffMcmahan).
21. Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux (AgnieszkaJaworska).
22. The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopherand Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from theBattlefield (Eva Feder Kittay).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Eva Feder Kittay is Professor of Philosophy, Women's StudiesAffiliate, and Senior Fellow of the Center for Medical Humanities,Bioethics and Compassionate Care at Stony Brook University, NewYork. Her published works include Love's Labor: Essays on Women,Equality, and Dependency (1998); The Blackwell Guide toFeminist Philosophy (co-edited with Linda Martín Alcoff,Blackwell, 2006); The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives onDependency (with Ellen K. Feder, 2003); and Metaphor: ItsCognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (1990). She is alsothe mother of a cognitively disabled woman.
Licia Carlson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy atProvidence College. Her research interests include 20th-centuryFrench philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, philosophy anddisability, and the philosophy of music. She has published articleson bioethics, feminist theory, disability, and the works of MichelFoucault, and has written a book entitled The Faces ofIntellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections.