Philosophical writing : an introduction / / A.P. Martinich.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 202 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Author and audience
- The professor as audience
- The student as author
- Three attitudes about philosophical method
- Logic and argument for writing
- What is a good argument?
- Valid arguments
- Cogent arguments
- Consistency and contradition
- Contraries and contradictories
- The strength of a proposition
- The structure of a philosophical essay
- An outline of the structure of a philosophical essay
- Anatomy of an essay
- Another essay
- Composing
- How to select an essay topic
- Techniques for composing
- Outlining
- Successive elaboration
- Conceptual note taking
- Research and composing
- Polishing
- Evolution of an essay
- Tactics for analytic writing
- Definitions
- Distinctions
- Analysis
- Dilemmas
- Scenarios
- Counterexamples
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Dialectical reasoning
- Some constraints on content
- The pursuit of truth
- The use of authority
- The burden of proof
- Some goals of form
- Coherence
- Clarity
- Conciseness
- Rigor
- Problems with introductions
- Slip sliding away
- The tail wagging the dog
- The running start.