22 | The Meaning of Disability (with Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds)
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There an Underlying Genomic Difference?
I worry that we do not have a rich enough nuance, enough, complex enough taxonomy of differences at the level of what these mean for people's understanding of their ability and our disability state in the world. Disability is just too complex, too heterogeneous, too multi factorial, to take any one of these ways of defining it as definitive for the meaning of whatever the particular disability or ability in question is. We also got to talk how, for example, how do you carve out just physical disabilities when so many forms of physical impairment have psychological ramifications? I think there's just not going to be progress, or whatever that means, progress in quotation marks, without leading off from that near
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