Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

by Kittay, Eva Feder; Carlson, Licia

• ISBN13: 9781405198288
• ISBN10: 1405198281
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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/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

Author Biography

Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies Affiliate, and Senior Fellow of the Center for Medical Humanities, Bioethics and Compassionate Care at Stony Brook University, New York. Her published works include Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1998); The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (co-edited with Linda Martn Alcoff, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006); The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (with Ellen K. Feder, 2003); and Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (1990). She is also the mother of a cognitively disabled woman. Licia Carlson is an assistant professor of philosophy at Providence College. Her research interests include twentieth-century French philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, philosophy and disability, and the philosophy of music. She has published articles on bioethics, feminist theory, disability, and the works of Michel Foucault, and is the author of The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections (2010).

Table of Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive Disability	p. 1
Intellectual Disability: The Medical Model and Beyond
The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States	p. 27
Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of Moral Personhood	p. 55
Justice
The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities	p. 75
Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response Martha Nussbaum	p. 97
Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities	p. 111
Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities	p. 127
Care
Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals	p. 147
Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia	p. 161
Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia	p. 171
Agency
Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden of Disease	p. 183
Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability	p. 201
Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation	p. 225
Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities	p. 237
Speaking About Cognitive Disability
How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role for Stories	p. 261
The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism: Reflections on Ian Hacking	p. 279
The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Dis/ability	p. 293
Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy	p. 315
Personhood
Speciesism and Moral Status	p. 331
Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement	p. 345
Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux	p. 369
The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield	p. 393
Index	p. 414
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