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Susan Gately, Christy Hammer
A Textual Deconstruction of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:
Utilitarian, Mechanistic, and Static Constructions of Disability in Society and in Schools
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The extremely well-known holiday television special Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is deconstructed to expose an underlying philosophical paradigm towards people, especially children, with disabilities that is mechanistic and utilitarian. This paradigm includes a static and over-determined view of any disability a person may have, and can be erroneously supported by a philosophy of “radical freedom.” Examples of this philosophy of disability as applied to the K-12 realm of special education are also provided, showing how the lessons learned from the children’s movie are mirrored in the static conceptualization of the notion of disability in the general society and educational system.
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Serene Khader
Cognitive Disability, Capabilities, and Justice
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I argue that capabilities approaches are useful in formulating a political theory that takes seriously the needs of persons with severe cognitive disabilities (PSCD). I establish three adequacy criteria for theories of justice that take seriously the needs of PSCD: A) understanding PSCD as oppressed, B) positing a single standard of what is owed to PSCD abled individuals, and C) concern with flourishing as well as political liberty. I claim that conceiving valued capabilities as the end of social distribution may help a political theory to meet these criteria.I posit three further adequacy criteria: D) refusing to see PSCD as less than human, E) valuing moral powers other than practical reason, and F) securing space for care and dependency relationships. I show that how well Elizabeth Anderson and Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approaches meet these criteria depends on their divergent conceptions of what capabilities are for. I sketch another capabilities approach that might better meet the three latter criteria (inspired by Lawrence Becker and Eva Kittay’s work), that conceives capabilities as for agency and relationship.
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Lavonna Lovern
Native American Worldview and the Discourse on Disability
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This paper argues that discussions of disability must include the same diversity in worldview as is reflected in the client population. Speaking from the perspective of Native American ontology and epistemology, the author argues that those who are considered by the dominant society as disabled might well find themselves subjugated and oppressed by that definition. The differences between a Native American worldview and that of the dominant culture is addressed. The case is made that if diversity in worldview and voice is not honored, disability-based oppression is replicated and reinforced.
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Diane Wiener
Benny & Joon’s “Alternative Philosophies” of Emotional (Dis)ability, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
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Michael Corrado
Review of Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, by Martha Craven Nussbaum
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Peter H. Denton
Review of The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge, ed. Jacques Brunschwig, E.R. Geoffrey, trans. Catherine Porter
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Neal DeRoo
Review of Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, by Marian Hobson
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Malek K. Khazaee
Review of Mathematics in Kant’s Critical Philosophy: Reflections on Mathematical Practice, by Lisa A. Shabel
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Yves Laberge
Review of Ethics: Contemporary Readings, ed. H.J. Gensler, E.W. Spurgin, J.C. Swindal
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L. Sebastian Purcell
Review of What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on The Whiteness Question, ed. George Yancy
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L. Sebastian Purcell
Review of Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion, ed. Kevin Hart
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Steven Ross
Review of Moral Literacy, by Barbara Herman
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Peter Murphy
Review of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vols. 1 & 2, by Scott Soames
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Eric Rovie
Review of Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, by John Rawls, ed. Samuel Freeman
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