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Intro -- Praise Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New Movement in Philosophy: Philosophy of Disability -- Part I: Desegregating the Discipline(s) -- Chapter 1: Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique Of Bioethics -- Chapter 2: Would You Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy -- Chapter 3: Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male -- Chapter 4: Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue -- Chapter 5: Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health -- Chapter 6: Disability and African Philosophy -- Part II: Mechanisms of Oppression -- Chapter 7: The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration -- Chapter 8: Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue -- Chapter 9: Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism -- Chapter 10: The ART of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices -- Chapter 11: Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism -- Part III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion -- Chapter 12: Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens -- Chapter 13: Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness -- Chapter 14: Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities -- Chapter 15: Exemption, Self-Exemption, and Compassionate Self-Excuse -- Chapter 16: Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized -- Part IV: Disabling Normativities -- Chapter 17: A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy -- Chapter 18: Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability -- Chapter 19: Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access.

In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs the indifference of philosophers to the predictable COVID-19 tragedy that has unfolded in nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, and other institutions in which elders and younger disabled people are placed. I maintain that, insofar as feminist and other discourses represent these institutions as sites of care and love, they enact structural gaslighting. I argue, therefore, that philosophers must engage in conceptual engineering with respect to how disability and these institutions are understood and represented. To substantiate my argument, I trace the sequence of catastrophic events that have occurred in nursing homes in Canada and in the Canadian province of Ontario in particular during the pandemic, tying these events to other past and current eugenic practices produced in the Canadian context. The crux of the article is that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into vivid relief the carceral character of nursing homes and other congregate settings in which elders and younger disabled people are confined.

In this article, I offer an account of how the individualized and medicalized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy is naturalized in bioethics, cognitive science, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and other subfields of the discipline. By the end of the article, I will have both indicated how disabled people are constituted in philosophical discourse as a problem to be rectified or eliminated and explained how the prevalence in philosophy of this naturalized conception of disability contributes to and reinforces the exclusion of disabled philosophers from the profession of philosophy. Critical philosophical work on disability is an important means with which to resist and subvert this exclusion.