[Revised entry by Jessica Begon, Daniel Putnam, David Wasserman, Jeffrey Blustein, and Adrienne Asch on May 29, 2026.
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Among the topics in philosophy and disability, the relationship between disability and justice has received the lion’s share of attention. No doubt this is in part because justice, often regarded as the “first virtue of social institutions” (Rawls 1971: 3), is central to the evaluation of social policies and public institutions. However, although, disability is frequently referred to in the context of debates about justice, the problems that it raises are rarely unique: it is far from the only way people are…

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