The ethics of autism : among them, but not of them
Autism is one of the most compelling, controversial, and heartbreaking cognitive disorders. Autism presents unique philosophical challenges as well. Starting from the thesis that a fundamental deficit in autism is the inability to recognize that other persons have minds, Deborah R. Barnbaum considers autism's implications for the nature of consciousness, our understanding of the consciousness of others, meaning theories in philosophy of language, and the modality of mind. This is a timely and wide-ranging book on a disorder that commends itself to serious ethical examination
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Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2008