Bradford Skow
Philosophy 382
Spring 2007



					Final Paper Information
					
					
					
The final paper is due on TUESDAY, MAY 22nd.

The paper should be between 5 and 6 pages.

It should use some form of in text documentation for citing sources. Do not 
write any footnotes.

1/3 of your grade (30 points) will be based on the quality of your writing. This 
includes clarity, spelling, grammer, and punctuation.

2/3 of your grade (60 points) will be based on the content of your paper. This 
includes: how accurately you present arguments and claims found in the reading; 
how well you explain those arguments and claims; the quality of your own 
evaluation of them.




Paper Topics:


1.	Choose-your-own. You may choose to write on any topic covered in the class
	since the beginning of the year, with one restriction: if a there was a 
	question on that topic on one of the exams, you may not write on it. (Study
	guide questions that were not on the exam are okay.)
	
	If you want to choose-your-own you must clear your topic with me. Send me
	email with your proposal.
	

2.	Critically assess Sober's argument that evolution made us psychological 
	altruists.
	
3.	Critically assess Sober's objection to Kant's argument that lying is morally
	wrong.
	
4.	Critically assess Sober's argument that Lewis is wrong to say that it is 
	impossible for a population of language users to always speak falsely.
	
5.	The second premise of the argument against ethical objectivism that Street
	discusses is a good source of topics. She discusses three objections to that
	premise. Choose one of those objections and critically evaluate it.