ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how a number of disabilities relate to human agency. I approach these issues in a ‘ground-up’ manner, by first exploring specific disabilities before attempting to treat those disabilities or their impact on agency in a unified or overarching way. I examine Parkinson’s disease, a paradigmatic physical disability, a number of disabilities that impact an agent’s emotions, and some of the range of intellectual disabilities. I then draw a number of lessons about agency from these discussions and argue that they apply not just to agents with disabilities, but to human agency in general.
