Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy Paperback / softback
Edited by Eva Feder (Stony Brook University, USA) Kittay, Licia (Providence College, USA) Carlson
Part of the Metaphilosophy series
Paperback / softback
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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 a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter SingerRepresents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under the rubric of cognitive disabilityOffers 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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:442 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:14/05/2010
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- ISBN:9781405198288
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:442 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:14/05/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405198288
