This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, in the context of the experiences of people with disabilities. Thirteen new essays examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices.

• Introduction


• 1: Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu: The welfarist account of disability


• 2: Norman Daniels, Susannah Rose, and Ellen Daniels Zide: Disability, adaptation and inclusion


• 3: Lorella Terzi: Vagaries of the natural lottery? Human diversity, disability and justice: A capability perspective


• 4: Jonathan Wolff: Disability among equals


• 5: Christie Hartley: An inclusive contractualism: Obligations to the mentally disabled*


• 6: Anita Silvers: No talent? Beyond the worst off!: A diverse theory of justice for disability


• 7: Leslie P. Francis: Understanding Autonomy in Light of Intellectual Disability


• 8: Douglas MacLean: Respect Without Reason: Relating to Alzheimer's


• 9: Jeff McMahan: Radical cognitive limitation


• 10: F. M. Kamm: Disability, discrimination and irrelevant goods


• 11: David Wasserman: Ethical constraints on allowing or causing the existence of people with disabilities


• 12: Rosalind McDougall: Impairment, flourishing and the moral nature of parenthood


• 13: Richard Hull: Projected disability and parental responsibilities

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).
Adam Cureton is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a BPhil in philosophy from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Adam is a fellow at the Parr Center for Ethics and holds fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation and the Institute for Humane Studies. His research interests lie primarily in ethics, metaethics and the history of ethics.