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On intuitive versus institutional accounts of ownership. 2023

Aidan Feeney, and Robin Hickey

School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Northern, Ireland a.feeney@qub.ac.uk; https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/aidan-feeney.

We contrast Boyer's intuitive account of ownership with formal legal accounts based on institutions of ownership. Boyer's emphasis on social aspects of ownership intuitions may have a bearing on recent arguments that property institutions are justified by their capacity to promote human flourishing. Moreover, Boyer's account of property intuitions facilitates the study of acquisition and mental representation of formal ownership concepts.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010067	Ownership	The legal relation between an entity (individual, group, corporation, or-profit, secular, government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as equipment, or completely a creature of law, such as a patent; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as a building.	Property Rights,Property Right,Rights, Property
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D019545	Intuition	Knowing or understanding without conscious use of reasoning. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1994)