I, me, mine: Body-ownership and the generation problem
I, me, mine: Body-ownership and the generation problem
The Body Ownership Thesis states that each person owns her body. I address a prominent objection, the Generation Problem: the Body Ownership Thesis apparently implies that parents own their children: as we own the fruit of our property, if a parent owns her own body, she must own her child and her child’s body. I argue that a person does not own the fruit of her property when that fruit is a person or the body of a person. Persons have conclusive title to their bodies, but only defeasible title to the fruits of their bodies
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Woollard, Fiona
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27 December 2017
Woollard, Fiona
c3caccc2-68c9-47c8-b2d3-9735d09f1679
Woollard, Fiona
(2017)
I, me, mine: Body-ownership and the generation problem.
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 98 (S1), .
(doi:10.1111/papq.12156).
Abstract
The Body Ownership Thesis states that each person owns her body. I address a prominent objection, the Generation Problem: the Body Ownership Thesis apparently implies that parents own their children: as we own the fruit of our property, if a parent owns her own body, she must own her child and her child’s body. I argue that a person does not own the fruit of her property when that fruit is a person or the body of a person. Persons have conclusive title to their bodies, but only defeasible title to the fruits of their bodies
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Accepted/In Press date: 14 October 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 April 2016
Published date: 27 December 2017
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Local EPrints ID: 383571
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/383571
ISSN: 0279-0750
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