Conceptual Themes:

What is disability? What is the most plausible definition or model of disability? Can a definition or model unify the myriad conditions commonly identified as disabilities? Is there a neutral model of disability? Can disability models establish normative conclusions about what response should be given to disability disadvantages? What is ableism?

What conditions can be defined as disabilities? There are conditions conventionally identified as disabilities but whose classification as such has now been contested, claiming that such conditions are merely cases of human diversity. How should we distinguish between cases of mere diversity and cases of disability?

Normative Themes:

What social responses are justified to eliminate or mitigate disability disadvantage? What justice metric is most appropriate to advance disability justice? What makes disability discrimination wrong? Is discrimination or oppression the better concept to theorize about disability disadvantage?

Contributions will also be welcomed on such questions as epistemic injustice and disability, ideal and nonideal theory in the light of disability, disability and social contract theories, disability and public reason, feminism and disability, the conceptual difference between structural discrimination and structural injustice through the lens of disability disadvantage, disability and adaptive preferences, disability and paternalism, the ethics of care, the case of invisible disability and justice, intellectual and mental disability in a just society, cognitive disability and the question of personal autonomy.

Participants can also address various disability-related applied ethical topics, including but not limited to whether healthcare rationing discriminates against disabled people or not, disability in the COVID-19 epidemic, and ethical questions related to prenatal testing and end-of-life decisions.