Gamester, W. orcid.org/0000-0003-4376-4433 (2026) Swamp Disabilities. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. ISSN: 0004-8402
Abstract
The medical model of disability views disabilities as biological dysfunctions of the individual’s body. Historically, this has been unpopular in the literature, but that is at least partly because it has also been associated with objectionable moral or political ideas. As such, it’s not clear that the core view about the nature of disability has received a fair hearing. This paper meets the medical model on its own terms. I argue that there is no available naturalistic account of biological functioning such that disabilities can plausibly be understood as biological dysfunctions.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | disability; medical model; teleosemantics; Swampman |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 14:31 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2026 14:49 |
| Status: | Published online |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/00048402.2026.2680298 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:231621 |
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