Against impairment: replies to Aas, Howard, and Francis

Philosophical Studies 175 (5):1151-1162 (2018)
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AbstrctSean Aas, Dana Howard, and Leslie Francis raise compelling and interesting objections to the definition of disability I defend in The Minority Body. In this paper, I reply to these objections and elaborate on my criticisms of the disability/impairment distinction.

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