University of Oregon

Nazi T-4 project, racism, and cognitive disability

Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University/SUNY. Among her most recent major publications are “On the Margins of Moral Personhood,” “Blackwell Studies in Feminist Philosophy,” and “Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy.” Kittay is currently at work on a new book, “A Quest for A Humbler Philosophy: Thinking about Disabled Minds and Things that Matter,” which explores challenges posed by cognitive disabilities to philosophy and ethics. She is also working on a collection of her essays on carework and the ethics of care. This event is co-sponsored by the UT Dallas Office of Student AccessAbility and the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies.