Table of Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments viii

Notes on Contributors x

1 Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive Disability Licia Carlson Eva Feder Kittay 1

Part 1 Intellectual Disability: The Medical Model and Beyond

2 The Limits of the Medical Model: Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States Jeffrey P. Brosco 27

3 Developmental Perspective on the Emergence of Moral Personhood James C. Harris 55

Part 2 Justice

4 The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities Martha Nussbaum 75

5 Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response Martha Nussbaum Michael Bérubé 97

6 Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities Cynthia A. Stark 111

7 Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities Sophia Isako Wong 127

Part 3 Care

8 Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals Jonathan Wolff 147

9 Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia Hilde Lindemann 161

10 Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia Bruce Jennings 171

Part 4 Agency

11 Cognitive Disability, Paternalism, and the Global Burden of Disease Daniel Wikler 183

12 Responsibility, Agency, and Cognitive Disability David Shoemaker 201

13 Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation James Lindemann Nelson 225

14 Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities Leslie P. Francis Anita Silvers 237

Part 5 Speaking About Cognitive Disability

15 How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role for Stories Ian Hacking 261

16 The Thought and Talk of Individuals with Autism: Reflections on Ian Hacking Victoria McGeer 279

17 The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Dis/ability Anna Stubblefield 293

18 Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy Licia Carlson 315

Part 6 Personhood

19 Speciesism and Moral Status Peter Singer 331

20 Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement Jeff McMahan 345

21 Caring and Full Moral Standing Redux Agnieszka Jaworska 369

22 The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield Eva Feder Kittay 393

Index 414