you have to tell me what it is. (I'm not a mind reader.)
please make it terse---a paragraph
or two, not a chapter, or anything like a chapter.
(I have to read the passage side by side with your outline,
to check that the latter correctly represents the argument in the former.)
My experience is that attempts to outline longer stretches of text
don't generally work out well.
Aug. 22 (for those of you who have already taken a class
from me, who know what these outline
assignments -- not the same as microcommentary assignments!
-- are supposed to
look like, and who want to get an early start): Lenman,
p. 360, either from "But this does not help" until
the end of the para., or from "If consequentialism
is to be a theory..." to the end of the para. (on the
following page).
Aug. 29: In John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, excerpt from
"The Psychological Foundations of Culture," either
p. 104, last para. ("This result is logically inevitable..."),
or p. 111, top para. ("1. In order to perform
tasks successfully...").
Sept. 5: Either Anderson, Values in
Ethics and Economics, first full para. on p. 39
("Consider first how expressive theories..."), or
Nussbaum, Fragility, first full para. on p. 114
("How could such an absurd mistake occur?")
Sept. 12: Anderson, Values in
Ethics and Economics, second full para. on p. 61
("Consequentialists may dig in their heels...").
Sept. 19: Anderson, Values in
Ethics and Economics,
either the penultimate para. (p. 115, "This line
of thought..."),
or
the final para. ("Second, the skeptical attitude...").
Sept. 26: Anderson, eitherValues in
Ethics and Economics,
the first full para. on
p. 166, starting in the middle of the para. ("But the market
can claim..."),
or
d'Agostino, Incommensurability and Commensuration,
para. bridging pp. 14f ("The point, briefly...").
Oct. 3:
d'Agostino, Incommensurability and Commensuration,
p. 33, from "If the unlucky A now finds..." through "...the
locus of incommensurability,
or
(and this one's a little messier than usual: you'll have to
pick one 'point', and do more reconstruction on your own)
pp. 36-39, from "But this idea is wrong," to "...substantive
basis for choice."
After this point, it's two-part weekly assignments, as described
on the syllabus.
Oct. 10: Extra bonus assignment!
D'Agostino, Incommensurability and Commensuration,
the boxed passage on p. 89 (you'll need to import claims
from earlier in the section),
or
pp. 89-90, from "And I take it, perhaps...," to the
end of the para.
Oct. 17:
D'Agostino, Incommensurability and Commensuration,
p. 131, from "Secondly, we have the fact of
change..." through "...theorists of relativism and absolutism
direct attention to";
or p. 138, all of the main text (you'll need to
draw on points made in the previous few pages).
Oct. 24:
Adam Morton, Disasters
and Dilemmas, sec. 2.2,
or sec. 2.4, up through the first full para. on
p. 20 ("...recommend the compromise solution). (For both
passages, remember that you are after the argument lying
beneath the narrative.)
Oct. 31:
Adam Morton, Disasters
and Dilemmas, first para. of 5.6,
or p. 79, para. starting "Something is very
wrong..."
(these passages will take a little more shaping than usual).
Nov. 7:
Adam Morton, Disasters
and Dilemmas,
p. 126, from "We all very much want to be treated..." to
"One way is by mourning,"
together with p. 127, from "Withholding life-saving
resources..." to "...make sure that he is remembered,"
or
p. 129, from "So there would still be a background..." to
the end of the page.
Nov. 14:
Searle, "Desire, Deliberation, and Action,"
p. 62, from "The two points, inconsistency..." through
"...committed to) those consequences,"
or
Brandom, p. 470, para. starting "One reason to do so..."
Nov. 21:
Bowman, Are Our Goals Really What We're After?,
para. bridging pp. 18-19,
or
para. bridging pp. 38-39.
Nov. 28:
Bowman, Are Our Goals Really What We're After?,
pp. 61-62, from "If success is not a criterion..." to
"...adjudicating their rational or moral value,"
or
pp. 66-68, from "The problem with the CW test is that..."
to "...doesn't provide any determinate results".
Dec. 5:
Andreou, "The Real Puzzle of the
Self-Torturer," sec. 3 ("A Complication")
or
Kant, Groundwork, Ak. 418, from (Ellington trans.)
"But, unfortunately, the concept of happiness..." to
"Therefore, one cannot act according to determinate
principles in order to be happy..."