Is this paper published or is there a way to get a copy of it?
Sharon Lamp
PhD student, UIC
On Thu, March 22, 2012 9:19 am, Dan Goodley wrote:
> Critical Disability Studies @ MMU, seminars 2012
> Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University
> 17th May 2012, 12.30 - 2pm Room OB109
> 'The Moral Significance of Severe Intellectual Disability'
> Simo Vehmas
> Professor of Special Education
> University of Jyväskylä, Finland
>
> The dispute between Jeff McMahan and Eva Feder Kittay about the moral
> status of humans with severe cognitive disabilities is perhaps the most
> vehemently contested dispute in moral philosophy of recent times.
> According to McMahan, those with such disabilities are less morally
> valuable than so-called normal human beings and ought to be treated as
> such. According to Kittay, those with such disabilities and normal human
> beings have equal moral value and so each group ought to be treated with
> equal concern. The dispute appears to go deep down to a dispute about the
> very foundations of moral worth itself, and it often seems that McMahan
> and Kittay represent two irreconcilable viewpoints. The purpose of this
> paper is, in part, to affect something of a reconciliation. By
> articulating clearly the crucial points of disagreement between McMahan
> and Kittay it is possible to make headway on both sides by showing that
> the dispute is not as deep as it first appears to be. But this is not
> merely a descriptive paper. It is my contention that, once the crucial
> points of disagreement are clearly articulated, it can be seen that there
> are significant problems with both positions. I will go on to offer a view
> that suffers from none of the problems that beset McMahan’s and Kittay’s.
> The view, roughly put, is that although having moral worth is grounded in
> the intrinsic psychological properties of an individual, significant moral
> worth can be bestowed upon an individual by its standing in special
> relations to others. In addition, it will be argued that the intrinsic
> psychological properties required to attain the moral status of personhood
> are less circumscribed than has previously been thought. The upshot for
> the debate about the moral worth of those with severe cognitive
> disabilities is that all but the most severely affected turn out to be of
> equal moral importance to so-called normal human beings.
> Dr Dan Goodley
> Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> Department of Psychology
> Manchester, M13 0JA
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