Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (eBook)

Eva Feder Kittay is 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 Martín Alcoff, 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 Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. Her research interests include 20th-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 has written a book entitled The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections.

Notes on Contributors.

1. Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light
of Cognitive Disability (Licia Carlson and Eva Feder
Kittay).

Part 1: Intellectual Disability: The Medical Model and
Beyond

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).

Part 2: Justice

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).

Part 3: Care

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).

Part 4: Agency

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).

Part 5: Speaking About Cognitive Disability

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).

Part 6: Personhood

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).

Index.

"Contemporary moral philosophers, clinicians, and medical
historians discuss ethical questions related to people with
intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and
Alzheimer's disease, and look at how cognitive disability forces us
to reexamine the concept of personhood." (Book News,
September 2010)