Feminist Approaches to Cognitive Disability

Carlson, Licia

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Section: Defining Intellectual Disability and Situating It In Philosophymentioning

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“…In philosophy broadly, intellectual disability has been largely erased or treated as a marginal case through which to explore questions of moral status and personhood (Carlson 2016; Wasserman et al 2017). Licia Carlson has written extensively about the problematic use of intellectual disability as a marginal case in philosophy, noting that such arguments rarely invoke or resemble the actual lives of people labeled with intellectual disabilities (Carlson 2016; 2021). Such moral debates, however divorced they are from the lived experience of intellectual disability, stand to bear critically on those lives, as “the humanity of people with intellectual disabilities is held suspect” (Taylor 2013, 5).…”

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Complexity as Epistemic Oppression: Writing People with Intellectual Disabilities Back into Philosophical Conversations

Monteleone

2023

Hypatia

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Formal Language In this essay, I reflect on the systematic exclusion of people with intellectual disabilities from philosophy even as their personhood is subject to ongoing philosophical debates. Theorizing this disenfranchisement as a form of epistemic oppression, I consider it in the context of the invalidation of disabled perspectives more broadly and characteristics of knowledge-production that confer credibility in philosophy. I end with a call for transformation through the framework of disability justice. I include an Easy Read summary, a plain language companion, and discussion questions, which restate my argument in simplified language and invite dialogue, demonstrating how philosophy might resist epistemic gatekeeping and imagine knowledge-production otherwise. Plain Language This essay is about philosophy and intellectual disability (ID). People with ID do not get to do philosophy very much. Some reasons they are left out are: – Disabled people are not believed when they talk about their lives. – The way we write in philosophy makes it hard for people with ID to join. I think we should change how we do philosophy. I wrote a summary that is easy to read. I wrote questions to talk about together. I want to think about how to do philosophy better. Easy Read Summary Philosophers are thinkers. They think about how the world is and how it should be. They think about intellectual disability (ID). Some thinkers say people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are worth less than other people. Most people with intellectual disabilities (ID) do not get to say what they think. We can change how we think by including people with intellectual disabilities (ID). We can believe what people with intellectual disabilities (ID) say about their lives. We can write and speak in simple ways. We can give people help thinking and making decisions. We can include people who do not speak or write. We can think as a community.

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Section: Defining Intellectual Disability and Situating It In Philosophymentioning

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Section: Defining Intellectual Disability and Situating It In Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

Complexity as Epistemic Oppression: Writing People with Intellectual Disabilities Back into Philosophical Conversations

Monteleone

2023

Hypatia

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“…Indeed, it has been suggested that autism, and some 'symptoms' of psychosis such as voice hearing, should not be regarded as diseases, but as examples of 'neurodiversity' (Mcgee 2012;Runswick-Cole 2014). By contrast, although people in general live many decades before suffering the impairments associated with their AD risk, by comparison to the body of research and advocacy that exists in the autism community, and, notwithstanding some notable analyses (Carlson 2016;Shakespeare, Zeilig, and Mittler 2019) the same kinds of argument in favor of reframing the condition as a set of valued differences rather than a disorder are largely absent.…”

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Ethics of Early Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease

2021

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) research, treatment, and prevention focus increasingly on developing personalized interventions based on personal genetic, biological, phenotypic data, for early intervention (EI) to limit harm. This approach has much to recommend it, but important ethical and philosophical challenges follow that should be considered, which we analyze here. We argue that advancing understanding of the causes of AD undermines the clarity of the distinction between primary and secondary prevention. This makes it increasingly unclear how primary and secondary categories can be appealed to as the basis for making judgements about what interventions are permissible, and for distinguishing between acceptably vs unacceptably early points in life to intervene. Timely efforts at prevention are vital for limiting harm from AD and given the logic of EI is that, in presence of risk, earlier is better, one might assume that earliest is best. This may or may not be the case; however, the permissibility of intervening in different ways at different stages of life is complex and turns on numerous contextual factors. We consider the particular ethical implications of intervening at different points in the life course, presenting a valuable resource for negotiating clinical and policy implications of EI in AD.

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Toward Inclusive Equality: Ten Years of the Human Rights Model of Disability in the Work of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Degener

Castro

2022

Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development

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Feminist Approaches to Cognitive Disability

Cited by 11 publications

References 62 publications

Complexity as Epistemic Oppression: Writing People with Intellectual Disabilities Back into Philosophical Conversations

Complexity as Epistemic Oppression: Writing People with Intellectual Disabilities Back into Philosophical Conversations

Ethics of Early Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease

Toward Inclusive Equality: Ten Years of the Human Rights Model of Disability in the Work of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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