Rent 9780534626266 | Doing Philosophy : A Guide to the Writing of Philosophy Papers

Summary Table of Contents

Write a good philosophy paper with DOING PHILOSOPHY: A GUIDE TO THE WRITING OF PHILOSOPHY PAPERS! With coverage of topics such as outlines, drafts, proper and improper quotation, argument development and evaluation, principles of good writing, criteria for grading student papers, and a review of common grammatical and dictional errors, this philosophy text provides you with the tools you need to prepare a good argument and write a good paper. Models of excellent and poor philosophy papers provide you with real-world examples of what to aim for ... MORE

Preface

viii

1. METHODS OF PROCEEDING

(8)

Introductory

(1)

... MORE

Selecting a topic

(1)

The irrelevance of most library research

(2)

Resolving controversies

(1)

Appreciating philosophers of an earlier period

(1)

The outline

(2)

Preparation of the final draft

(1)

Writing blocks

(1)

2. RULES OF THE GAME

(8)

Plagiarism as a legal wrong (violation of another person's property right)

(1)

Plagiarism as a moral wrong (cheating and lying)

(1)

Quotation, attribution, and acknowledgement

(2)

Alternative formats for notes

(2)

Acceptable abbreviations in notes

(2)

3. CRITERIA FOR GRADING STUDENT PAPERS

(6)

Clarity

(1)

Presence of argument

(1)

Cogency of argument

(1)

Originality, subtlety, imaginativeness

(2)

Degree of difficulty

(1)

Ordering the criteria

(3)

4. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF GOOD WRITING

(8)

Clarity again

(1)

Simplicity

(2)

Economy

(1)

Padding

(1)

Repetitiveness

(1)

Redundancy

(1)

Misplaced emphasis

(1)

Pretentiousness and fancy words

(2)

A miscellany of further judgments

(1)

5. MISTAKES OF GRAMMAR

(22)

Grammatical and nongrammatical writing errors

(1)

Criteria of correct grammar

(2)

A sampler of grammatical rules and their problems

(17)

Summary

(2)

6. SOME COMMON MISTAKES IN DICTION

(10)

Diction and grammar

(1)

Linguistic correctness and controversy

(1)

Constantly changing usage

(1)

Linguistic liberals and conservatives

(1)

Sample mistakes of diction

(7)

7. STYLISTIC INFELICITIES

(14)

The concept of style

(1)

Prose writing as a source of pleasure

(2)

The paragraph

(3)

Motion metaphors

(2)

Smoothing the flow

(2)

Conspicuous over-use of favorite words

(1)

Forget adornment and eloquence

(1)

Types of poor writing styles

(3)

8. LANGUAGE AND LOGIC

(8)

Correct and incorrect reasoning

(1)

Deductive and inductive reasoning

(2)

Sentences and propositions

(1)

Arguments

(1)

Premises as unproved assumptions

(1)

Logical necessity versus psychological certainty

(1)

Necessity and contingency

(1)

Three types of impossibility

(3)

9. BASIC DEDUCTIVE LOGIC

(14)

Possible truth value combinations

(2)

Validity and soundness

(1)

Definition of truth-functional connectives

(3)

Necessary and sufficient conditions

(1)

Valid deductive argument forms: a sampler

(8)

10. LOGIC WITHOUT NECESSITY

(8)

Informal fallacies

(2)

Some inductive inferences, good and bad

101

(1)

Begging the question

102

(1)

Analogical reasoning

103

(1)

A sampler of fallacies

104

(3)

11. VARIETIES OF PHILOSOPHY PAPERS

107

(6)

Rules of strategy

107

(1)

Manageable philosophical tasks

107

(1)

Modest partial reasons

108

(1)

Interpretation

109

(1)

Generalization and counterexample

109

(1)

Definition

110

(2)

Other categories of philosophical papers

112

(1)

12. PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET

113

RENT TEXTBOOKS

Doing Philosophy : A Guide to the Writing of Philosophy Papers

Why Rent from Knetbooks?

Top 5 reasons to order all your textbooks from Knetbooks:

Related Products