Philosophy of Disability

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 3 credits from PHIL at the 2000 level excluding PHIL 2611; or permission of the Department This course introduces the philosophical study of disability. It raises important questions that challenge our thinking and assumptions in a range of ways and explores issues such as: social versus medical models of disability; definitions of impairment and disability, including how they have changed through history; disability as identity and how it interacts with other identities; the relationship between concepts of disability and concepts of well-being; disability and culture; and philosophy's treatment of intellectual disability in the context of philosophy's traditional valorization of reason. [Note 1: Students enrolled in Health Studies programs who are already doing 3/4000 level work in their own field will be admitted to this course.] (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: PHIL 4991 Philosophy of Disability)