I, Me, Mine: Body-Ownership and the Generation Problem

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (98):87-108 (2016)
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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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Fiona Woollard
University of Southampton

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