1st Edition
Contemporary Philosophy of Autism
Introduction Jami L. Anderson and Simon Cushing
1. Autistic Vulnerability to Intellectual Arrogance Sydney Maxwell
2. Moral Responsibility and Autism Ann Whittle
3. Autism, the Double Empathy Problem and Feeling the Emotions of Another Person Sam Fellowes
4. Autism From the Second Person Perspective Francisco García
5. Autism and Gender Ruby Hake and Emily Hughes
6. Autism, Care, and the Limits of Destigmatization Quinn Hiroshi Gibson and Sarah Arnaud
7. Elephants and Armadillos: Anti-Autistic Ideology Forms an Anti-Autistic World Jami L. Anderson
8. Ain’t Misbehavin’: Scrapping Applied Behavior Analysis Dani Maskit and Barbara Fultner
9. Masking as Persona Flexibility Emil Eva Rosina and Elin McCready
10. Re-Examining Knowledge: Sensory and Social Challenges in the Autistic Community Ira Kraemer and Eric Kraemer
11. The Thing of It Isn’t: Defending Eliminativism About Autism Simon Cushing
Biography
Jami L. Anderson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Flint and an Associate Teaching Professor in the Wayne State University Law School. She co-edited The Philosophy of Autism. She is currently working on a monograph titled Special Risk of Wrongful Execution: Atkins v. Virginia and the Illusory Prohibition of the Execution of Intellectually Impaired Criminals in the U.S.
Simon Cushing is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Flint, co-editor of The Philosophy of Autism, editor of Heaven and Philosophy and New Philosophical Essays on Love and Loving. He is currently working on a monograph about the metaphysics of abortion.
“An important addition to analytic philosophy of autism”.
Robert Chapman, Assistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK
“This volume captures crucial perspectives in that the authors of each paper include at least one with direct, personal experience of autism, and thereby provides a unique and invaluable contribution to the literature on autism. It should interest anyone concerned with what autism is like “from the inside” and also the felt adequacy of various techniques designed to mitigate its effects. It also provides insightful discussion of the broader questions of how to describe inner experiences in a way that makes them intelligible to those who have not had them, how to determine whether a response is empathetic, and what it is to be a person who endures through time, and to be an autonomous—and moral—agent”.
Janet Levin, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of Southern California, USA
