91暗网黑料

Philosophy of Disability

PHI 492/IDS 370/IDS 352
Professor Ian Dunkle 
T/Th 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Activists and disability scholars have shaken up old (but still widespread) assumptions about how to categorize various psycho-physiological states as 鈥�(ab)normal,鈥� 鈥�(un)healthy,鈥� and 鈥済ood (or bad) for you.鈥� This up-shaking raises a number of conceptual questions, including: (Q1) What is a 鈥渄isability鈥�? (Q2) How does 鈥渂eing disabled鈥� relate to 鈥渂eing healthy鈥�? And (Q3) what impact does disability have on wellbeing? The philosophy of disability is a growing field of study dedicated to answering questions like these. The questions are attracting more and more philosophical attention because of their practical implications, their prior lack of attention, and their connection to other areas of philosophical study (e.g. what does 鈥渉ealth鈥� even mean? how are impacts on wellbeing to be assessed? how ought medical professionals to treat disabilities?). For the first time at 91暗网黑料, we are offering a full course on the philosophy of disability. This course will focus on on the three Q鈥檚 above and will be crosslisted with IDS 370. In addition to reading the latest philosophical work on these questions, we will connect our inquiry to work on disability from outside of philosophy (e.g. literature, history, and communication).