Content Treat a philosopher or theme covered in the readings. Below are some ideas. You can, however, write a paper of a different sort. Just be sure to check with me about your topic, regardless of what you choose. Remember, whatever type of paper you write, support your thesis with careful reasoning as well as attention to the text and secondary literature. ? Critically analyze a thinker?s position on some topic. Example: What do you think of Hume?s argument that habit or instinct is what grounds our certainty regarding matters of fact? ? Relate the ideas of thinkers back to some contemporary social issue. Example: Can Socrates? decision to remain imprisoned rather than disobey the state inform our understanding of civil disobedience (in this connection, see also Martin Luther King Jr.?s Letter from Birmingham Jail). ? Discuss how one philosopher influences another. Example: How does Plato?s description of the ascent of the soul in Phaedrus figure into Boethius? notion of an ordered cosmos?? Discuss how one philosopher or philosophical position contradicts another. Example: How and why do Hume and Descartes differ over whether we can have apodictic knowledge of natural phenomena? ? Criticize an account from the secondary literature. You may believe one of the authors of a secondary source misconstrues some philosopher?s position. You can write a paper arguing that this is the case. Things not to do ? Do not write a biographical paper that discusses the life and the historical period in which a philosopher works. Keep biographical data to a bare minimum. ? Do not write a paper that relies on controversial sources (such as religious writings or opinion blogs) to justify its claims. ? Philosophical positions can have ramifications that spill over into other disciplines. For instance, Plato?s and Aristotle?s notions of aspects of the soul seem reflected in Sigmund Freud?s discussion of the id, ego and superego. Writing on such topics is fine, but do not write a paper on a particular, non-philosophic theory (for example, a paper on Freudian psychology). Such papers are better suited for an audience of specialists in fields outside philosophy.
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