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

Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medicalhistorians, and prominent moral philosophers, CognitiveDisability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses theethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, andmeta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability* Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medicalhistorians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporaryphilosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and PeterSinger* Represents the first collection that brings togetherphilosophical discussions of Alzheimer's diseaseintellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under therubric of cognitive disability* Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mentalretardation, and autism, as well as issues such as carepersonhood, justice, agency, and responsibility

Notes on Contributors.1. Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Lightof Cognitive Disability (Licia Carlson and Eva FederKittay).Part 1: Intellectual Disability: The Medical Model andBeyond2. The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology ofIntellectual Disability in the United States (Jeffrey P.Brosco).3. Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of MoralPersonhood (James C. Harris).Part 2: Justice4. The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities(Martha Nussbaum).5. Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response toMartha Nussbaum (Michael Bérubé).6. Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities(Cynthia A. Stark).7. Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities(Sophia Isako Wong).Part 3: Care8. Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals (JonathanWolff).9. Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time ofDementia (Hilde Lindemann).10. Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia (BruceJennings).Part 4: Agency11. Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden ofDisease (Daniel Wikler).12. Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability (DavidShoemaker).13. Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation(James Lindemann Nelson).14. Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics(or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities (Anita Silversand Leslie Pickering Francis).Part 5: Speaking About Cognitive Disability15. How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role forStories (Ian Hacking).16. The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism: Reflectionson Ian Hacking (Victoria Mcgeer).17. The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Disability (AnnaStubblefield).18. Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy(Licia Carlson).Part 6: Personhood19. Speciesism and Moral Status (Peter Singer).20. Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement (JeffMcmahan).21. Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux (AgnieszkaJaworska).22. The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopherand Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from theBattlefield (Eva Feder Kittay).Index.