ABSTRACT
This book is about philosophers encountering disability and disability scholars from various disciplines encountering philosophy. The aim of this collection is quite straightforward: to provide: (1) theoretical tools for the conceptualisation of disability; and (2) well-argued and well-grounded views on definitional and normative issues for professionals and policy-makers. What makes this book novel is its focus on disability as a philosophical issue. Disability studies scholarship thus far has been mostly empirical in nature and rooted largely in sociological frameworks. Despite the in-built tendency to theorise disability in the social scientific framework, ‘the development of social theory about disability is still in its infancy’, as Carol Thomas (1999: 29) asserted almost ten years ago, an assessment which unfortunately still applies.
