Cognitive disability and its challenge to moral philosophy
By: edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Licia Carlson
Series: Metaphilosophy series in philosophy
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Suxxex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781405198288
Other titles: Metaphilosophy.
Description: 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/d.
Notes: Originally published as volume 40, nos. 3-4 (July 2009) of Metaphilosophy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.