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Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy
Series: Metaphilosophy
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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.
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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"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
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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