Publication: When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability

The (penultimate, i.e., uncopyedited) version of my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability” is now on PhilPapers here: https://philpapers.org/rec/TREWMR

The article will appear in Mich Ciurria’s special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility theory.

The abstract for the article appears below:

In this article, I aim to demonstrate that moral responsibility theory produces, legitimates, and even magnifies the considerable social injustice that accrues to disabled people insofar as it implicitly and explicitly promotes a depoliticized ontology of disability that construes disability as a naturally disadvantageous personal characteristic or deleterious property of individuals rather than identifies it as an effect of power, an apparatus. In particular, I argue that the methodological tools of “analytic” philosophy that philosophers employ to establish the philosophical domain in which they engage have distinctly detrimental effects on disabled people.

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