Peter Hacker: Resolving the Mind-Body Problem (07/02/2014)

The question of the nature of the relationship between someone’s mind and body has been on the philosophical agenda at least since Socrates. It has been remarkably refractory. If one has a mind and has a body, who or what is it that possesses such things? Is it one’s mind that has a body or one’s body that has a mind? Or is it the self that has both? Or the person? Scrutiny of the misleading possessive form of representation sheds light on the matter. To have a mind, as Aristotle already knew, is to possess