Adam Cureton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Cureton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Cureton |
| SIGNATURE | CURETON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7199-7846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sovereign Reason: Autonomy and our Interests of Reason
We often invoke reason, rationality, reasonableness, reasons, and related concepts in common sense. Despite what many serious thinkers claim, the reason of everyday life is far more substantive than cold logic or calculating self-interest. This book explores the idea that our power of reason includes an expansive set of governing abilities, motives, and principles. It develops this novel theory drawing on a wide variety of Kant’s texts and highli…
Rethinking the Value of Humanity
The idea of an aristocracy of all has been enormously influential in politics and philosophy since the end of the Second World War. The idea is that all of us have the same inviolable dignity grounded in our shared humanity that affords us human rights, protects us from objectification, combats sexism and racism, and makes us worthy of respect. Despite its impact and intuitive appeal, attributing this special value to everyone might smack of dogm…
Gaming the System: Justice, Fairness, and Disability Accommodations
I am legally entitled to certain accommodations for my visual impairment that I do not always need. Affording me these rights is required by justice even on those rare occasions in which they are not necessary to give me an equal opportunity to fully participate in all aspects of society. I sometimes wonder whether I am nonetheless “gaming the system,” “exploiting a loophole,” or otherwise acting unjustly or unfairly by using disability accommoda…
Character education for students with disabilities
Many schools see it as part of their mission to provide character education or moral education to their students. Yet many students with disabilities are excluded from these curricula, programs, and policies or denied some of their benefits. This essay explores some specific moral problems and obstacles that disabled students face when it comes to developing or exercising virtues of justice or fairness, self-respect, and self-development. For exa…
Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications
"This book advances our understanding of the nature, grounds and limits of human dignity by connecting it with Kant's notion of an ideal moral community, or "Kingdom of Ends". It features original essays by leading Kant scholars and moral and political philosophers from around the world. Although Kant's influential injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself and never merely as a means has garnered the most attention among those interested i…
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars in the humanities and social sciences, to one of the most dynamic new areas of philosophical inquiry. Disability raises some of the deepest conceptual and normative issues about human embodiment and well-being; dignity, respect, justice and equality; and personal and social identity. But it also raises pressing practical questions for educational, health, reproductive, and technolog…
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
Reasonable Hope in Kant’s Ethics
The most apparent obstacles to a just, enlightened and peaceful social world are also, according to Kant, nature’s way of compelling us to realize those and other morally good ends. Echoing Adam Smith’s idea of the ‘invisible hand’, Kant thinks that selfishness, rivalry, quarrelsomeness, vanity, jealousy and self-conceit, along with the oppressive social inequalities they tend to produce, drive us to perfect our talents, develop culture, approach…
Kant on Virtue
Immanuel Kant defines virtue as a kind of strength and resoluteness of will to resist and overcome any obstacles that oppose fulfilling our moral duties. Human agents, according to Kant, owe it to themselves to strive for perfect virtue by fully committing to morality and by developing the fortitude to maintain and execute this life-governing policy, despite obstacles. This chapter reviews basic features of Kant’s conception of virtue and then di…
Offensive Beneficence
Simple acts of kindness that are performed sincerely and with evident good will can also, paradoxically, be perceived as deeply insulting by the people we succeed in benefiting. When we are moved to help someone out of genuine concern for her, when we have no intention to humiliate or embarrass her and when we succeed at benefiting her, how can our generosity be disparaging or demeaning to her? Yet, when the tables are turned, we sometimes find o…
Unity of Reasons
Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage: G. A. Cohen's Egalitarianism
G. A. Cohen was one of the world's leading political theorists. He was noted, in particular, for his contributions to the literature of egalitarian justice. Cohen's classic writings offer one of the most influential responses to the currency of the egalitarian justice question – the question, that is, of whether egalitarians should seek to equalize welfare, resources, opportunity, or some other indicator of well-being. Underlying Cohen's argument…
Making room for rules
Solidarity and Social Moral Rules
Disability and Disadvantage
This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of people with disabilities can lead to reconsideration of prominent positions on normative issues. Thirteen new chapters examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices.
Degrees of Fairness and Proportional Chances
Suppose the following: two groups of people require our aid but we can help only one group; there are more people in the first group than in the second group; every person in both groups has an equal claim on our aid; and we have a duty to help and no other special obligations or duties. I argue that there exists at least one fairness function, which is a function that measures the goodness of degrees of fairness, that implies that we should foll…
A Rawlsian Perspective on Justice for the Disabled
I aim to identify and describe some basic elements of a Rawlsian approach that may help us to think conscientiously about how, from the standpoint of justice, we should treat the disabled. Rawls has been criticized for largely ignoring issues of this sort. These criticisms lose their appeal, I suggest, when we distinguish between a Rawlsian standpoint and the limited project Rawls mainly undertakes in A Theory of Justice. There his explicit aim i…
Degrees of Fairness and Proportional Chances
Suppose the following: two groups of people require our aid but we can help only one group; there are more people in the first group than in the second group; every person in both groups has an equal claim on our aid; and we have a duty to help and no other special obligations or duties. I argue that there exists at least one fairness function, which is a function that measures the goodness of degrees of fairness, that implies that we should foll…
Making room for rules
A Rawlsian Perspective on Justice for the Disabled
I aim to identify and describe some basic elements of a Rawlsian approach that may help us to think conscientiously about how, from the standpoint of justice, we should treat the disabled. Rawls has been criticized for largely ignoring issues of this sort. These criticisms lose their appeal, I suggest, when we distinguish between a Rawlsian standpoint and the limited project Rawls mainly undertakes in A Theory of Justice. There his explicit aim i…
Disability and Disadvantage
This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of people with disabilities can lead to reconsideration of prominent positions on normative issues. Thirteen new chapters examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices.
Degrees of Fairness and Proportional Chances
Suppose the following: two groups of people require our aid but we can help only one group; there are more people in the first group than in the second group; every person in both groups has an equal claim on our aid; and we have a duty to help and no other special obligations or duties. I argue that there exists at least one fairness function, which is a function that measures the goodness of degrees of fairness, that implies that we should foll…
Solidarity and Social Moral Rules
Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage: G. A. Cohen's Egalitarianism
G. A. Cohen was one of the world's leading political theorists. He was noted, in particular, for his contributions to the literature of egalitarian justice. Cohen's classic writings offer one of the most influential responses to the currency of the egalitarian justice question – the question, that is, of whether egalitarians should seek to equalize welfare, resources, opportunity, or some other indicator of well-being. Underlying Cohen's argument…
Making room for rules
Offensive Beneficence
Simple acts of kindness that are performed sincerely and with evident good will can also, paradoxically, be perceived as deeply insulting by the people we succeed in benefiting. When we are moved to help someone out of genuine concern for her, when we have no intention to humiliate or embarrass her and when we succeed at benefiting her, how can our generosity be disparaging or demeaning to her? Yet, when the tables are turned, we sometimes find o…
Unity of Reasons
Kant on Virtue
Immanuel Kant defines virtue as a kind of strength and resoluteness of will to resist and overcome any obstacles that oppose fulfilling our moral duties. Human agents, according to Kant, owe it to themselves to strive for perfect virtue by fully committing to morality and by developing the fortitude to maintain and execute this life-governing policy, despite obstacles. This chapter reviews basic features of Kant’s conception of virtue and then di…
Reasonable Hope in Kant’s Ethics
The most apparent obstacles to a just, enlightened and peaceful social world are also, according to Kant, nature’s way of compelling us to realize those and other morally good ends. Echoing Adam Smith’s idea of the ‘invisible hand’, Kant thinks that selfishness, rivalry, quarrelsomeness, vanity, jealousy and self-conceit, along with the oppressive social inequalities they tend to produce, drive us to perfect our talents, develop culture, approach…
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars in the humanities and social sciences, to one of the most dynamic new areas of philosophical inquiry. Disability raises some of the deepest conceptual and normative issues about human embodiment and well-being; dignity, respect, justice and equality; and personal and social identity. But it also raises pressing practical questions for educational, health, reproductive, and technolog…
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications
"This book advances our understanding of the nature, grounds and limits of human dignity by connecting it with Kant's notion of an ideal moral community, or "Kingdom of Ends". It features original essays by leading Kant scholars and moral and political philosophers from around the world. Although Kant's influential injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself and never merely as a means has garnered the most attention among those interested i…
Gaming the System: Justice, Fairness, and Disability Accommodations
I am legally entitled to certain accommodations for my visual impairment that I do not always need. Affording me these rights is required by justice even on those rare occasions in which they are not necessary to give me an equal opportunity to fully participate in all aspects of society. I sometimes wonder whether I am nonetheless “gaming the system,” “exploiting a loophole,” or otherwise acting unjustly or unfairly by using disability accommoda…
Character education for students with disabilities
Many schools see it as part of their mission to provide character education or moral education to their students. Yet many students with disabilities are excluded from these curricula, programs, and policies or denied some of their benefits. This essay explores some specific moral problems and obstacles that disabled students face when it comes to developing or exercising virtues of justice or fairness, self-respect, and self-development. For exa…
Rethinking the Value of Humanity
The idea of an aristocracy of all has been enormously influential in politics and philosophy since the end of the Second World War. The idea is that all of us have the same inviolable dignity grounded in our shared humanity that affords us human rights, protects us from objectification, combats sexism and racism, and makes us worthy of respect. Despite its impact and intuitive appeal, attributing this special value to everyone might smack of dogm…
Sovereign Reason: Autonomy and our Interests of Reason
We often invoke reason, rationality, reasonableness, reasons, and related concepts in common sense. Despite what many serious thinkers claim, the reason of everyday life is far more substantive than cold logic or calculating self-interest. This book explores the idea that our power of reason includes an expansive set of governing abilities, motives, and principles. It develops this novel theory drawing on a wide variety of Kant’s texts and highli…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (9 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law and economics (5 works)