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No Justice without Disability (2024)
Book Chapter
Begon, J. (2025). No Justice without Disability. In H. Hänel, & J. Müller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory. Routledge

Principles of justice should not be developed without incorporating the perspectives of oppressed groups. The reason for this is twofold. First, failing to do so will tend to lead to inadequate principles of justice. Second, even when principles of j... Read More about No Justice without Disability.

Tragedy and Inspiration: The Epistemic Injustice of Stereotypical Media Representations of Disability (2023)
Book Chapter
Begon, J. (2023). Tragedy and Inspiration: The Epistemic Injustice of Stereotypical Media Representations of Disability. In C. Fox, & J. Saunders (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Media Ethics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003134749-24

Media representations of disabled people are rare, and those that do exist are grounded in stereotypes, often falling into one of two standard narratives: tragic victim or inspirational Supercrip. The influence of such media representations on both o... Read More about Tragedy and Inspiration: The Epistemic Injustice of Stereotypical Media Representations of Disability.

Disability Through the Lens of Justice (2023)
Book
Begon, J. (2023). Disability Through the Lens of Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198875611.001.0001

When thinking about disability in the context of justice, our focus should not be on the ways in which people’s bodies and minds function differently. Instead, we should shift our focus to the limitations that this leads to – for particular people, i... Read More about Disability Through the Lens of Justice.

Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test (2021)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2024). Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 27(5), 684-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1972585

The suggestion that individuals should be considered disadvantaged, and consequently entitled to compensation, only if they consider themselves disadvantaged (Dworkin’s ‘continuity test’) is initially appealing. However, it also faces problems. First... Read More about Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test.

Disability: a justice-based account (2020)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2021). Disability: a justice-based account. Philosophical Studies, 178(3), 935-962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01466-3

Most people have a clear sense of what they mean by disability, and have little trouble identifying conditions they consider disabling. Yet providing a clear and consistent definition of disability is far from straightforward. Standardly, disability... Read More about Disability: a justice-based account.

Disability, Rationality, and Justice: Disambiguating Adaptive Preferences (2018)
Book Chapter
Begon, J. (2018). Disability, Rationality, and Justice: Disambiguating Adaptive Preferences. In D. T. Wasserman, & A. Cureton (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and disability. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190622879.013.27

Is disability disadvantageous? Although many assume it is paradigmatically so, many disabled individuals disagree. Whom should we trust? On the one hand, pervasive mistrust of already underrepresented groups constitutes a serious epistemic injustice.... Read More about Disability, Rationality, and Justice: Disambiguating Adaptive Preferences.

Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control (2017)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2017). Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control. Social Theory and Practice, 43(1), 154-179. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20174317

The capability approach aims to ensure that all individuals are able to form and pursue their own conception of the good, whilst the state remains neutral between them, and has done much to include oppressed and marginalized groups. Liberal neutralit... Read More about Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control.