Week 9
After reading your essays
Remarks on marking
- Will send them off to you guys tomorrow morning-ish
- Numbers less important
- Does not affect your final grade
- Always a bit of luck
- Advice more important
- Get citations right!!
- Do send me a pdf
How to write a particularly good essay
- General advice
- Getting the basics down
- Do not rely on my intelligence/patience/time
- Being boring pays off
- But being creative is a long term valuable skill
- Drawing on secondary literature
- The model for actually existing philosophical research
- Not really required for our model
- 'I' already in the second paragraph
- Really helpful
- Original thinking is good, but it's helpful if you have an understanding
of the actual debate
- Or even just knowing where other people have taken interest
- Several stages
- Picking a broad topic
- I.e something we discussed in a given week
- It's helpful and probably mandatory that it is actually something we
discussed
- Reread material?
- If you have forgotten
- Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
- Really good
- Will get you far
- Pick a sub-topic to discuss
- Pick a title
- Not everyone picked a title
- Helps focus what you are saying
- Either a question or a clear statement
- Quite specific
- Plan
- Write your four paragraphs as four sentences
- Write
Reading the Frankfurt text a bit
- What is moral responsibility
- What is the possibility to do otherwise
- The purpose of these big picture questions
- 'Someone ought to be punished when they do something wrong if they had the
ability to do otherwise'
After reading your essays
Remarks on marking
- Will send them off to you guys tomorrow morning-ish
- Numbers less important
- Does not affect your final grade
- Always a bit of luck
- Advice more important
- Get citations right!!
- Do send me a pdf
How to write a particularly good essay
- General advice
- Getting the basics down
- Do not rely on my intelligence/patience/time
- Being boring pays off
- But being creative is a long term valuable skill
- Drawing on secondary literature
- The model for actually existing philosophical research
- Not really required for our model
- 'I' already in the second paragraph
- Really helpful
- Original thinking is good, but it's helpful if you have an understanding of the actual debate
- Or even just knowing where other people have taken interest
- Getting the basics down
- Several stages
- Picking a broad topic
- I.e something we discussed in a given week
- It's helpful and probably mandatory that it is actually something we discussed
- Reread material?
- If you have forgotten
- Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
- Really good
- Will get you far
- Pick a sub-topic to discuss
- Pick a title
- Not everyone picked a title
- Helps focus what you are saying
- Either a question or a clear statement
- Quite specific
- Plan
- Write your four paragraphs as four sentences
- Write
- Picking a broad topic
Reading the Frankfurt text a bit
- What is moral responsibility
- What is the possibility to do otherwise
- The purpose of these big picture questions
- 'Someone ought to be punished when they do something wrong if they had the ability to do otherwise'