Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy [Paperback]

• 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
  

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).<lók