Humans, aliens & autism

Daedalus

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 44-59

  Hacking, Ian ^a  

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EID: 70349654000     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2009.138.3.44     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars, The New Yorker, December 27, 1993; reprinted in Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (New York: Knopf, 1995), 295.
2. Starting, perhaps, with Lucian of Samosata (ca. 125-ca. 182), A True Story, trans. A. M. Harmon, Loeb Classical Library 14 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), 247-357.
3. A short but wise passage in Leibniz captures many of the uses of aliens; New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding, trans. Jonathan Bennett and Peter Remnant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), III, vi, section 22, as well as the notes. (This is mostly omitted from the abridged edition of 1982.)
4. Charlotte Moore, Georgeand Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism (London: Viking,2004).
5. Jasmine Lee O'Neill, Through the Eyes of Aliens: A Book about Autistic People (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998).
6. st Books Library, 2003). Miller says she has been diagnosed with attention de1/2cit disorder with Asperger's syndrome traits, as well as major depression.
7. st Books Library, 2003). Miller says she has been diagnosed with attention de1/2cit disorder with Asperger's syndrome traits, as well as major depression. 141.
8. Marti Leimbach, Daniel Isn't Talking (London: Fourth Estate, 2006), 4, 91.
9. Cammie McGovern, Eye Contact (New York: Viking, 2006), 60.
10. The quotation is from the back cover blurb. London: Kathy Hoopmann, Of Mice and Aliens (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001). This book is a sequel in the Asperger Adventures series to Hoopmann's Blue Bottle Mystery (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001), in which Ben first finds out what ails him.
11. Pamela Victor, Baj and the Word Launcher: Space Age Asperger Adventures in Communication (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006).
12. Portia Iversen, Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006).
13. Portia Iversen, Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006).129.
14. A talk given at the International Conference on Autism, Toronto, 1993, and published in Our Voice, the newsletter of Autism Network International; available at http://www.grasp.org/media/mourn.pdf.
15. One self-described deconstruction of Sinclair's may be found on a website whose name repudiates the trope of the alien: Whose planet is it anyway?The site features a blog, "Don't Mourn, Get Attitude" (August 9, 2006), whose title, the author explains, "is intended to make one thing clear: We are not, and never were, extraterrestrials flying around in ufos, freakish mutants wandering the galaxy, or aliens lost in space, and we have just as much right to be on Planet Earth as anyone else." The blog refers to the umbrella organization Autism Speaks as a "hate group"; http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2006/08/dont-mourn-get-attitude.html.
16. I am quoting from http://www.aspergia.com/ accessible through 2006, but no longer active.
17. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, rev. 3rd trans. (1953; Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 190e.
18. Cicero, De Oratore, 3.221: Ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi, from Cicero on the Ideal Orator, trans. James M. May and Jakob Wisse (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 294.
19. Dante, Convivio, Trattato III, chap. 8, between line markers 9 and 10: Dimostrasi ne li occhi tanto manifesta, che conoscer si può la sua presente passione, chi bene là mira, from Dante's Il Convivio (The Banquet), trans. R. H. Lansing (New York: Garland, 1990), 111.
20. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 152e.
21. Wolfgang Köhler, Gestalt Psychology (New York: Horace Liveright 1929).
22. Wolfgang Köhler, Gestalt Psychology (New York: Horace Liveright, 1929) 250.
23. I provide exact citations in Autistic Autobiography,Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) 364 (1522) (2009): 1467-1473. I owe my first reflections on Köhler and Wittgenstein to Janette Dinishak, Wittgenstein and Koehler on Seeing and Seeing Aspects (doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 2008). She has helped me a good deal with this and other writings on autism.
24. Köhler, Gestalt Psychology, 250-251.
25. Köhler, Gestalt Psychology 266-267; emphasis added.
26. David Premack and Guy Woodruff, "Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind?" Behavioral and Brain Science 1 (1978): 515-526
27. Uta Frith and Francesca Happé, "Theory of Mind and Self-Consciousness: What is it Like to be Autistic?" Mind & Language 14 (1999): 1-22.
28. See Hacking, Autistic Autobiography for examples of this practice.
29. Köhler,Gestalt Psychology, 350.