The ethics of philosophizing: Ideal theory and the exclusion of people with severe cognitive disabilities

Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-146

  Kittay, Eva Feder ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Care ethics; Cognitive disability; Mental retardation; Naturalized ethics; Non ideal theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959373029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6841-6_8     Document Type: Chapter

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