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. ... Schwanda. She asks, "Who would you be?" Would you think as Wanda? Would you be the same person you always were? The author evaluates the views of both Locke and Aristotle. With Locke's point of view one believes that "a person goes wherever her brain goes" (323), on the assumption that our mental uniqueness is more prone to be located in th...

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