Adam Cureton

Adam Cureton is Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is an internationally recognized disability scholar and advocate who draws on his own experiences as a legally blind person. He is the author of Sovereign Reason (2025), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (2020), Disability in Practice (2018), and Disability and Disadvantage (2009). He founded and served as President of the Society for Philosophy and Disability and...See more

Adam Cureton is Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is an internationally recognized disability scholar and advocate who draws on his own experiences as a legally blind person. He is the author of Sovereign Reason (2025), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (2020), Disability in Practice (2018), and Disability and Disadvantage (2009). He founded and served as President of the Society for Philosophy and Disability and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Philosophy of Disability . See less