Title
Philosophy and Disability
Files
Description
In 2003 there was a fire at a Russian boarding school, 28 deaf children were killed. In a published analysis, two philosophers claimed that it was their deafness that caused their death. They had to be woken up individually and they couldn’t hear instructions to run. The rest was inevitable. Anita Silvers not only takes issue with this interpretation, but describes this analysis as emblematic of everything wrong about our thinking on disability. On this episode of Why? we talk with her about the philosophical errors in our discussions about the disabled and how to learn from these mistakes.
Anita Silvers is professor and chair of the philosophy department at San Francisco State University. She has authored, coauthored, and edited many books and articles. Her professional website is here . She is a nationally recognized advocate for disability rights with a scholarly emphasis on medical ethics, bioethics, social and political philosophy, and feminism.
The text of this episode’s monologue can be found here at our blog, PQED.
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Publication Date
12-11-2016
Publisher
Institute for Philosophy in Public Life
City
Grand Forks, ND
Keywords
People with disabilities--United States ; Discrimination against people with disabilities--United States ; Social justice--United States
Disciplines
Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Weinstein, Jack Russell and Silvers, Anita, "Philosophy and Disability" (2016). Why? Radio Podcast Archive. 40.
https://commons.und.edu/why-radio-archive/40