TITLE:
My Body: Is It Me?
AUTHORS:
Thomas W. Smythe
KEYWORDS:
Mind; Body; Ownership
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.2 No.3,
August
14,
2012
ABSTRACT: In this paper I will take the term “my” in the phrase “my body” to be typically used to refer to the self or person whose body it is. This raises a problem for materialism over how a body can own or have itself. I will articulate some ways in which we are and are not related to our bodies, and try to undo the linquistic knot of a body owning itself.