Cognitive Disability And Its Challenge To Moral Philosophy Armen T Marsoobian by Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero(eds.) 9781405198288, 9781444322781, 1405198281, 1444322788 instant download after payment.

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
  

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive Disability (pages 1–25): Licia Carlson and Eva Feder Kittay
Chapter 2 The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States (pages 26–54): Jeffrey P. Brosco
Chapter 3 Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of Moral Personhood (pages 55–73): James C. Harris
Chapter 4 The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities (pages 74–95): Martha Nussbaum
Chapter 5 Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response to Martha Nussbaum (pages 97–109): Michael BeRube
Chapter 6 Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities (pages 111–125): Cynthia A. Stark
Chapter 7 Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities (pages 127–146): Sophia Isako Wong
Chapter 8 Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals (pages 147–159): Jonathan Wolff
Chapter 9 Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia (pages 161–169): Hilde Lindemann
Chapter 10 Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia (pages 171–182): Bruce Jennings
Chapter 11 Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden of Disease (pages 183–199): Daniel Wikler
Chapter 12 Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability (pages 201–223): David Shoemaker
Chapter 13 Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation (pages 225–236): James Lindemann Nelson
Chapter 14 Thinking about the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities (pages 237–259): Leslie P. Francis and Anita Silvers
Chapter 15 How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role for Stories (pages 260–278): Ian Hacking
Chapter 16 The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism: Reflections on Ian Hacking (pages 279–292): Victoria McGeer
Chapter 17 The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Dis/ability (pages 293–313): Anna Stubblefield
Chapter 18 Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy (pages 315–329): Licia Carlson
Chapter 19 Speciesism and Moral Status (pages 330–344): Peter Singer
Chapter 20 Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement (pages 345–367): Jeff McMahan
Chapter 21 Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux (pages 369–392): Agnieszka Jaworska
Chapter 22 The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield (pages 393–413): Eva Feder Kittay