Doing Philosophy

by Feinberg, Joel; Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780495096078
• ISBN10: 0495096075
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780534626266, 9781285055015
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Clear and concise, this brief guide will help you write a successful paper-even if you have no previous formal background in writing philosophy papers. Contents include topic selection, outlines, drafts, proper and improper quotation, argument development and evaluation, principles of good writing, style, criteria for grading student papers, and a review of common grammatical and dictional errors. In addition, the book devotes several chapters to basic concepts in logic, which have proven invaluable for philosophy students like you in the course of critically considering and writing about the ideas and arguments they encounter.

Table of Contents

Preface

Methods of Proceeding

Rules of the Game

Criteria for Grading

General Principles of Good Writing

Mistakes of Grammar

Some Common Mistakes in Diction

Stylistic Infelicities

Logic and Language

Basic Deductive Logic: Some Fragments

Logic without Necessity

A Model of an Excellent Paper

A Model of a (Very) Bad Paper

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