Dear all, This is a reminder that tomorrow, Dr. Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds) will give a talk entitled "Constructing Disability". An abstract is included below.
The meeting will be held at 5:15pm on Tuesday, 19 November, in the *Dirac Room* (found in the Fisher Building), St. John's College. For more information, including details about our fees, and our 2013-2014 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena ABSTRACT: The things we group as 'disabilities' are strikingly heterogenous. The first task of any philosophical theory of disability is thus to argue that there is something unifying these disparate cases to which philosophical analysis can be usefully applied. Many accounts of disability attempt to explain what unifies individual disabilities via reference to specific features of disabled bodies, but I argue that such accounts fail. There is no objective feature(s) of disabled bodies such that all and only bodies with that feature(s) count as disabled. I argue instead that disability is socially constructed. I attempt to develop a social constructivist account of disability that avoids some of the familiar pitfalls for social constructivist positions. -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc
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