Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University/SUNY and a Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. Kittay received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
She is the mother of two children, and grandmother of three. One of her children is severely cognitively disabled and served as the inspiration for the book that is the Guggenheim project, a book whose working title is Disabled Minds and Things That Matter: Lessons for a Humbler Philosophy. Weaving together the theoretical and the personal, the book explores the many ways in which questions of cognitive disability demand a reconsideration of the ways we think about a good life, normalcy, justice, care and the question of what it means to be human.