Disability and Disadvantage
by Brownlee, Kimberley; Cureton, AdamFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-08-03
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).
Adam Cureton is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a BPhil in philosophy from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Adam is a fellow at the Parr Center for Ethics and holds fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation and the Institute for Humane Studies. His research interests lie primarily in ethics, metaethics and the history of ethics.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Adam Cureton and Kimberley Brownlee
1. The welfarist account of disability, Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu
2. Disability, adaptation and inclusion, Norman Daniels, Susannah Rose, and Ellen Daniels Zide
3. Vagaries of the natural lottery? Human diversity, disability and justice: A capability perspective, Lorella Terzi
4. Disability among equals, Jonathan Wolff
5. An inclusive contractualism: Obligations to the mentally disabled*, Christie Hartley
6. No talent? Beyond the worst off!: A diverse theory of justice for disability, Anita Silvers
7. Understanding Autonomy in Light of Intellectual Disability, Leslie P. Francis
8. Respect Without Reason: Relating to Alzheimer's, Douglas MacLean
9. Radical cognitive limitation, Jeff McMahan
10. Disability, discrimination and irrelevant goods, F. M. Kamm
11. Ethical constraints on allowing or causing the existence of people with disabilities, David Wasserman
12. Impairment, flourishing and the moral nature of parenthood, Rosalind McDougall
13. Projected disability and parental responsibilities, Richard Hull
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