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Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

Series: Metaphilosophy
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Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy is a collection of essays from leading clinicians, medical historians, and moral philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer. It explores the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical issues arising from cognitive disabilities like Alzheimer’s disease, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and autism. The book offers deep insights into related topics including care, personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility.
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This book is ideal for scholars and students of philosophy, ethics, disability studies, and bioethics, as well as clinicians and historians interested in the moral challenges posed by cognitive disabilities.

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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.

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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 prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and renowned 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.

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    Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy
    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 prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and renowned contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer. Represents...
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"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)

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ISBN: 9781405198288

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 May 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Licia Carlson
  • Edited by Eva Feder Kittay
  • Edited by Eva Feder Kittay
  • Edited by Eva Feder Kittay

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 508g

Pages: 442

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About the Author

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 Martin 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.

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