Each paper should be 2500-3000 words.

You will be graded not only on the critical reading and writing skills demonstrated by your analysis of texts and the reconstruction of their arguments, but also on how you can creatively put these skills to use to explore concepts. In other words, you need to not only show to me that you can summarize a philosopher’s position (or philosophers’ positions, as the case may be) faithfully, but also that you have thought through the various implications of their position, whether these implications be positive and negative according to your opinion. Philosophy is both a body of knowledge and a distinctive methodology that you can use to flesh out the advantages and disadvantages of various explanations