Meredith W. Michaels teaches philosophy at Smith College. She focuses her work on issues dealing with reproductive ethics and feminist epistemology. Her piece, Persons, Brains, and Bodies, discusses Locke’s memory theory and the Aristotelian position.
Michaels used a story of two people being in an accident, one person you and the other person named Wanda. Wanda is crushed by a steam roller, however, her brain survives. You, have a stroke that causes brain damage. The result is Wanda’s brain being put into your head and the new name is Schwanda. She asks, “Wh
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