Philosophical Issues Raised by Autism: Sociality, Explanations, Heterogeneity, and Neurodiversity

This publication is included in the Autistic Autism Scholarship Project. one author of this publication is identified as autistic in the project.

About the autistic author marker

Metadata sources used for this reference

OpenAlex Crossref OpenCitations
Learn more about the sources used

Fellowes, S. (2025). Philosophical Issues Raised by Autism: Sociality, Explanations, Heterogeneity, and Neurodiversity. In Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine (pp. 1439-1460). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2252-8_112

Publication date: 1 Jan 2025 Added to AutiHub: 11 Sep 2026 Type: Book chapter Article language: English
Publisher source (DOI) OpenAlex source

This publication is integrated into AutiHub through:

Authors

Publication authors
1
Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 1 (100.0%)
  1. Sam Fellowes *

Abstract

No structured abstract stored for this reference.

Bibliography cited by this reference

Cited references are imported from external metadata sources when they are available. The list may be partial.

Cited bibliography overview

These indicators describe the bibliography cited by this publication. An author name is counted each time it appears in one cited reference, so the same person can be counted more than once. Names not yet linked to an author already present in AutiHub are treated as unknown, not as non-autistic. Last computed: 12 Sep 2026 01:05.

Cited references
46
With a DOI
34
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
12
9 / 46 (19.6%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
3 / 46 (6.5%)
References with detected author names
45 / 46 (97.8%)
Without detected author names
1
Without a structured title
3
Without a stable identifier
11
References with raw author names still to review
1
References with external metadata lookup issues
0
These indicators apply to cited references displayed on this page, after technical duplicates have been merged. A reference without a DOI can still support author statistics when a title and author names are available.
Author names detected in the cited bibliography
66
From DOI or external metadata
66
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
1
31 / 66 (47.0%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 35 / 66 (53.0%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
11 / 66 (16.7%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 11 / 31 (35.5%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 8 / 61 (13.1%).
  1. Stathis Psillos (1999). Scientific realism: how science tracks truth .
    Type: Book OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W1542006548
    Crossref OpenAlex
  2. Susan Abel , Tanya Machin , Charlotte Brownlow (2019). Support, socialise and advocate: An exploration of the stated purposes of Facebook autism groups . Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 61, 10-21. Elsevier BV.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2019.01.009 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2914895765
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  3. Miles MacLeod , Nancy J. Nersessian (2013). Building Simulations from the Ground Up: Modeling and Theory in Systems Biology . Philosophy of Science, 80(4), 533-556. Cambridge University Press (CUP).
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1086/673209 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2172443057
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  4. Lorna Wing (1981). Language, social, and cognitive impairments in autism and severe mental retardation . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 11(1), 31-44. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/bf01531339 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W1964572189
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  5. APA (2013) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edn. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  6. Pier Jaarsma , Stellan Welin (2012). Autism as a Natural Human Variation: Reflections on the Claims of the Neurodiversity Movement . Health Care Analysis, 20(1), 20-30. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/s10728-011-0169-9 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W1993582641
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  8. Deborah Barnbaum (2008). The Ethics of Autism . Indiana University Press.
    Type: Book DOI: 10.2979/5255.0 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4409477111
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  9. Michael Orsini (2012). Autism, Neurodiversity and the Welfare State: The Challenges of Accommodating Neurological Difference . Canadian Journal of Political Science, 45(4), 805-827. Cambridge University Press (CUP).
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1017/s000842391200100x OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W1972817143
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  10. Simon Baron-Cohen (1997). Mindblindness: an essay on autism and theory of mind . Mindblindness: an essay on autism and theory of mind.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  11. Robert Chapman * (2021). Neurodiversity and the Social Ecology of Mental Functions . Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(6), 1360-1372. SAGE Publications.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1177/1745691620959833 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3126691317
    AutiHub · Autistic Autism Scholarship Project Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  12. B.J. Casey , Mary Ellen Oliveri , Thomas Insel (2014). A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Framework . Biological Psychiatry, 76(5), 350-353. Elsevier BV.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.01.006 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2075525683
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  14. Robert Chapman * (2020). Neurodiversity, disability, wellbeing . In Neurodiversity studies: a new critical paradigm (pp. 57-72). Routledge.
    Type: Book chapter DOI: 10.4324/9780429322297-7 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2966072789
    AutiHub · Autistic Autism Scholarship Project Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  15. Coralie Chevallier , Gregor Kohls , Vanessa Troiani , Edward S. Brodkin , Robert T. Schultz (2012). The social motivation theory of autism . Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(4), 231-239. Elsevier BV.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.02.007 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2091028497
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  16. Shaun Gallagher (2008). Direct perception in the intersubjective context . Consciousness and Cognition, 17(2), 535-543. Elsevier BV.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.003 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2061680350
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  17. Tom Roberts , Joel Krueger , Shane Glackin (2019). Psychiatry Beyond the Brain: Externalism, Mental Health, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder . Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 26(3), E-51-E-68. Project MUSE.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2019.0030 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2936468567
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  18. Giacomo Rizzolatti , Maddalena Fabbri-Destro (2010). Mirror neurons: from discovery to autism . Experimental Brain Research, 200(3-4), 223-237. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2002-3 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2067350929
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  20. Sam Fellowes * (2021). Scientific Perspectivism and psychiatric diagnoses: respecting history and constraining relativism . European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(1), 8. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/s13194-020-00320-x OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3083303624
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  21. Bonnie Evans (2017). The metamorphosis of autism . Manchester University Press.
    Type: Book DOI: 10.26530/oapen_625488
    Crossref OpenCitations
  22. Henry Markram (2007). The intense world syndrome – an alternative hypothesis for autism . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1(1), 77-96. Frontiers Media SA.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.1.1.006.2007 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2128332414
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  23. Elisabeth L. Hill (2004). Evaluating the theory of executive dysfunction in autism . Developmental Review, 24(2), 189-233. Elsevier BV.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2004.01.001 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2152600647
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  24. Sam Fellowes * (2022). The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry . The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(4), 941-963. University of Chicago Press.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1086/714801 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3021320620
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  25. Francesca Happé , Uta Frith (2006). The Weak Coherence Account: Detail-focused Cognitive Style in Autism Spectrum Disorders . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(1), 5-25. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/s10803-005-0039-0 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2162512585
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  26. Gregory Hollin (2014). Constructing a social subject . Hist Hum Sci, 27(4), 1. SAGE Publications.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1177/0952695114528189 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2153443177
    Crossref OpenAlex
  27. Sam Fellowes * (2024). A history of childhood schizophrenia and lessons for autism . History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46(3), 29-29. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00627-5 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4401510200
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  28. Wesley C. Salmon (1998). Causality and Explanation . Oxford University PressNew York.
    Type: Book DOI: 10.1093/0195108647.001.0001 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4290960102
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  29. Ginny Russell (2020). Critiques of the Neurodiversity Movement . In Autistic community and the neurodiversity movement: stories from the frontline (pp. 287-303). Springer Singapore.
    Type: Book chapter DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_21 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2986569042
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  30. Bonnie Evans (2017). The metamorphosis of autism . Manchester University Press.
    Type: Book DOI: 10.7765/9781526110015 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4212985347
    OpenAlex
  31. R Hassall (2016). Re-thinking autism . Re-thinking autism, 49.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  33. Glenn Wilson (1996). Mindblindness—an essay on autism and theory of mind . Personality and Individual Differences, 20(2), 278-279. Elsevier BV.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8869(96)80006-7 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2942685071
    OpenAlex
  34. Miriam Solomon (2001). Social Empiricism . The MIT Press.
    Type: Book DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/6296.001.0001 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4244323414
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  35. P Kitcher (1989). Scientific explanations . Scientific explanations, 410.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  36. J Krueger (2018). Krueger J, Maiese M (2018) Mental institutions, habits of mind, and an extended approach to autism. Thaumàzein|Riv Filosofia 6:10–41 Thaumàzein|Riv Filosofia, 6, 10.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  37. Stathis Psillos (2002). Causation and Explanation . Acumen Publishing Limited.
    Type: Book DOI: 10.1017/upo9781844653317 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4206015975
    Crossref OpenAlex OpenCitations
  38. M Maiese (2013). The philosophy of autism . The philosophy of autism, 167.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  39. Rosemary Horrox (2013). Scientific explanations . In The Black Death. Manchester University Press.
    Type: Book chapter DOI: 10.7765/9781526112712.00012 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4230422534
    OpenAlex
  40. Francisco Ortega (2013). Worlds of autism . Worlds of autism, 73.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  41. Gregory Hollin (2014). Constructing a social subject . History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), 98-115. SAGE Publications.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1177/0952695114528189 10.17613/m6s17ss22
    OpenCitations
  42. Daniel Glenn (2022). Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities . World Futures, 78(5), 339-341. Informa UK Limited.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2022.2094194 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4285727398
    OpenAlex
  43. JZ Sadler (2005). Values and psychiatric diagnoses . Values and psychiatric diagnoses.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  44. S Timimi (2011). The myth of autism . The myth of autism.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  45. J van Grunsven (2020). van Grunsven J (2020) Perceiving ‘other’ minds: autism, 4E cognition, and the idea of neurodiversity. J Conscious Stud 27(7–8):115–143 J Conscious Stud, 27(7–8), 115.
    Type: Other
    Crossref
  46. N Walker (2021). Neuroqueer heresies notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities . Neuroqueer heresies notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities.
    Type: Other
    Crossref