The Picture Theory of Disability

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dc.contributor.authorFirth, Steven J.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorStingl, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-13T15:36:23Z
dc.date.available2016-04-13T15:36:23Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis argues that the nature of disability is, currently, fundamentally misunderstood. Current approaches to disability are nounal and seek to determine the locus of disability with the intention of better understanding the phenomenon of disability. In contrast, this thesis offers an adverbial perspective on disability and shows how disability is experienced as an increased and personally irremediable impediment to daily-living tasks or broader goals. This impediment is not a function of either biological individuality or the Social, but of a specific relation between the individual and their environment. The following delineates the Picture Theory of Disability — a mechanism for the evaluation of the experience of disability and a heuristic device for the proper interpretation of disability. The theory is born of Humean sentimentalism and elements of Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory of Language, and shows when, where, and how disability is experienced.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4466
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0422en_US
dc.proquest.subject0631en_US
dc.proquest.subject0630en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectdisabilityen_US
dc.subjectdisability theoryen_US
dc.subjectinclusionen_US
dc.subjectphilosophy of disabilityen_US
dc.titleThe Picture Theory of Disabilityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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