eprintid: 10180261
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datestamp: 2023-11-02 10:51:49
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creators_name: Vorhaus, J
title: Membership in a kind: Nature, norms, and profound disability
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
keywords: Profound disability, rationality, species membership, species nature, species norms
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abstract: 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.
date: 2022-01
date_type: published
publisher: Wiley
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12533
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1912860
doi: 10.1111/meta.12533
lyricists_name: Vorhaus, John
lyricists_id: JSVOR34
actors_name: Stacey, Thomas
actors_id: TSSTA20
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Metaphilosophy
volume: 53
number: 1
pagerange: 25-37
citation:        Vorhaus, J;      (2022)    Membership in a kind: Nature, norms, and profound disability.                   Metaphilosophy , 53  (1)   pp. 25-37.    10.1111/meta.12533 <https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12533>.       Green open access   
 
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