Date of Award
Fall 12-14-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
George Graham
Second Advisor
Christie Hartley
Third Advisor
Eddie Nahmias
Fourth Advisor
Jill Littrell
Abstract
Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASCs) are marked by social-communicative difficulties and unusually fixed or repetitive interests, activities, and behaviors (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In this thesis, I review empirically and conceptually based philosophic proposals that maintain the social-communicative difficulties exhibited by persons on the autism spectrum result from a lack of capacity to understand other persons as minded. I will argue that the social-communicative difficulties that characterize ASCs may instead result from a lack of ability to access other minds, and that this lack of ability is due to a contingent lack of external resources.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2333673
Recommended Citation
Born, Ryan, "A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2333673