TY  - JOUR
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12533
SP  - 25
TI  - Membership in a kind: Nature, norms, and profound disability
KW  - Profound disability
KW  -  rationality
KW  -  species membership
KW  -  species nature
KW  -  species norms
ID  - discovery10180261
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
JF  - Metaphilosophy
EP  - 37
AV  - public
N2  - Can rationality serve as the basis of respect for people who do not have this capacity? This paper starts from the assumption that rationality is both the norm for the human species and the basis of respect. The paper considers whether the species norm determines the nature of those profoundly disabled people who do not themselves possess the norm-related characteristics, and if it does, whether this implies that these same individuals are owed respect. The principal conclusion is that, while a positive response to these questions has its merits, it faces hard questions of its own, some of which appear insoluble. If that is what they are, then any attempt to ground respect for profoundly disabled people on an appeal to rationality as the species norm will fail, and those of us who believe that this group of human beings is owed respect will have to come up with an alternative explanation.
VL  - 53
IS  - 1
PB  - Wiley
A1  - Vorhaus, J
Y1  - 2022/01//
ER  -