| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) |
| Series |
Metaphilosophy series in philosophy |
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Metaphilosophy series in philosophy.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive Disability / Licia Carlson and Eva Feder Kittay -- 2. The Limits of the Medical Model : Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States / Jeffrey P. Brosco -- 3. Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of Moral Personhood / James C. Harris -- 4. The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities / Martha Nussbaum -- 5. Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All : A Response to Martha 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 -- 8. Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals / Jonathan Wolff -- 9. Holding One Another Well, Wrongly, Clumsily -- in a Time of Dementia / Hilde Lindemann -- 10. Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia / Bruce Jennings -- 11. Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden of Disease / Daniel Wikler -- 12. Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability / David Shoemaker -- 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 Silvers and Leslie Pickering Francis -- 15. How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism : A Role for Stories / Ian Hacking -- 16. The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism : Reflections on Ian Hacking / Victoria Mcgeer -- 17. The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Disability / Anna Stubblefield -- 18. Philosophers of Intellectual Disability : A Taxonomy / Licia Carlson -- 19. Speciesism and Moral Status / Peter Singer -- 20. Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement / Jeff Mcmahan -- 21. Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux / Agnieszka Jaworska -- 22. The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political : A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield / Eva Feder Kittay |
| Summary |
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/d |
| Notes |
Originally published as volume 40, nos. 3-4 (July 2009) of Metaphilosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition disorders.
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Ethics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlson, Licia, 1970-
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Kittay, Eva Feder.
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
1405198281 (Paper) |
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1444322788 (electronic bk.) |
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1444322796 (electronic bk.) |
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9781405198288 (Paper) |
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9781444322781 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444322798 (electronic bk.) |
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