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-- WITH PHOTO -- TO EDUCATION, LEGAL AFFAIRS, AND NATIONAL EDITORS:
Utica College Professor Takes Closer Look at Approach to Justice for
Persons with Disabilities
UTICA, N.Y., March 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Is there justice
in the capabilities approach?
Dr. Christopher A. Riddle, director of the Applied Ethics Institute
and assistant professor of philosophy at Utica College, discusses just
this in his book "Disability and Justice: The Capabilities Approachin
Practice."
Riddle explains, "The capabilities approach suggests that in order to
promote justice, we need to provide people with a list of fundamental
capabilities (or opportunities) to live a life worthy of human
dignity." This includes life; bodily health and integrity, senses,
imagination, thought; practical reason; affiliation; other species;
play and control over one's environment.
"Disability and Justice" examines how, as a matter of justice, the
experience of disability is accounted for within this approach. It
suggests that the capabilities approach is unable to properly assess
both those who are in need as well as the extent to which assistance
is required.
The book - just released March 14 - argues that health and the absence
of disability belong in a category of functionings that are of special
moral importance, and that the capabilities approach fails to
recognize this.
Riddle is also the editor of "From Disability Theory to Practice." He
has published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Social
Philosophy; the American Journal of Bioethics; Medicine, Health Care,
and Philosophy; Topoi and Disability Studies Quarterly.
Riddle has been invited to conduct research at the Swiss Paraplegic
Research Institute in Nottwil, Switzerland and has also advised for
numerous national and international institutions, including Health
Canada, The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, The National
Disability Authority of Ireland and The International Development
Committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. Riddle's
current work focuses on the inability of existing conceptions of
egalitarian principles of justice to adequately accommodate people
with disabilities.
Riddle earned a BAH in philosophy/political studies and a Ph.D. in
philosophy from Queen's University. He earned his MA in critical
disabilities studies from York University.
For more information, visit https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739178027 or
amazon.com.
About Utica College - Utica College, founded in 1946, is a
comprehensive private institution offering bachelors, masters and
doctoral degrees. The college, located in upstate central New York,
approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse,
currently enrolls over 4,000 students in 36 undergraduate majors, 27
minors, 21 graduate, pre-professional and special programs.
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