{"id":1972,"date":"2025-02-24T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:36:13","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2024-25-session-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2024-25-session-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2024-25: Session 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quill Kukla (Georgetown\u00a0University)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>28 February 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p>Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p>Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cHealthism\u201d is the pervasive ideology according to which each of us is responsible for valuing and protecting our own health and prioritizing health over other values, while society has the right to enforce, surveil, and reward healthy living.\u00a0Neurodiversity\u00a0and other forms of cognitive difference are generally understood through the lens of health: they are taken as diagnosable pathological conditions that should be treated or mitigated via medical interventions. Putting these two ideas together, neurodivergent people are supposed to try to be \u201chealthy,\u201d through pharmaceuticals, behavioral therapy, and the like, and society has an investment in making them be \u201chealthy.\u201d But neurodivergence is not a morbidity in a typical sense, so it is unclear what \u201chealth\u201d means in this context. In practice, our societal standards for health for neurodivergent people are defined in terms of what avoids disrupting neurotypical expectations and systems or making neurotypical people uncomfortable. \u201cHealth,\u201d for neurodivergent people, is in effect respectability\u2014it is not defined in terms of their own needs or flourishing but in relation to the norms and needs of others. This can be seen from a close reading of diagnostic definitions and official medical \u201ctreatment\u201d methods and goals. Trying to \u201ctreat\u201d neurodivergent people by making them respectable citizens who are palatable within neurotypical productivity culture is usually likely to backfire; typically bad for their own well-being, and a social loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This work\/event is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT &#8211; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UID\/00310\/2025, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa<br \/>\n(https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/UID\/00310\/2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics Quill Kukla (Georgetown\u00a0University) &nbsp; 28 February 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0\u201cHealthism\u201d is the pervasive ideology according to which each of us is responsible for valuing and protecting our own health and prioritizing health over other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}