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9781444322798

Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

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    9781444322798

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    1444322796

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2010-05-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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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

Table of Contents

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