This course will explore a series of questions in moral and political philosophy that apply to persons characterized by profound impairments, including people...

Research Seminar in Moral Philosophy: Profound Impairment (PHIL0116)

This course will explore a series of questions in moral and political philosophy that apply to persons characterized by profound impairments, including people suffering from advanced dementia and people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities. Profound impairment raises a series of questions about the content and application of a set of moral and political concepts, including human dignity, respect for persons, personhood, capabilities, dependency, citizenship, rights, caring relationships and moral status. This last includes questions about the status of persons whose capacities and levels of functioning are broadly equivalent to or less extensive than those of other higher primates. Topics to be covered include some (but not necessarily all) of the following: Human dignity; Personhood; Respect for persons; Dependency; Capability and functioning; Citizenship; Rights; Caring relationships; Moral status; Autonomy; Disability (the social and medical models); Wittgensteinian ethics.

The following readings will give students an idea of the sort of literature we will be discussing on the course.

The online Stanford entry on “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status” .

These anthologies:

(Eds) Brownlee and Cureton (2009), Disability & Disadvantage (OUP: Oxford)

(Eds) Kittay and Carlson (2010), Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford)

(Eds) Francis and Silvers (2000), Americans with Disabilities (Routledge: New York)

Philosophy Area B

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