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. 24 (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): Strawson, Individuals, para. bridging
pp. 95-96, starting "The second of these views I call the
'no-ownership' or 'no-subject' doctrine..."
Aug. 31: Either Parfit, Reasons and
Persons, sec. 83; or Williams, "Imagination and the
Self,"
near the top of Problems of the Self, p. 40, from
"Schlick famously claimed..." to the end of the paragraph.
Sept. 7: Either Parfit, Reasons and
Persons, sec. 86 ("The Combined Spectrum"), up to the
second break on p. 239 ("...a strong argument for this
view"); or Williams, "Persons, Character and
Morality," from "many moral notions show" (on p. 7) to "what
Parfit calls the Simple View" (on p. 8).
Sept. 14: Either Parfit, Reasons and
Persons, sec. 67 ("Why We Should Not Be Biased Toward
The Future"; you'll want to strip out some of the back and
forth around Epicurus), or sec. 64 ("Past and
Future Suffering").
Sept. 21: Either Nagel, Possibility of
Altruism, p. 42, the para. starting "Thirdly...",
or the first three paras. of ch. VIII, sec. 5
(pp. 68f, starting "It should be possible..." through
"...from one's temporally extended self").
Sept. 28: Either Strawson,
Individuals, pp. 27f, para. starting "But one who
makes this objection...", up to "...items in the
spatio-temporal framework,"
or p. 32, para. starting "Why are
criteria...".
Oct. 5: Either Strawson,
Individuals, p. 104, top, from "Let me rehearse briefly..."
up to "...and corporeal characteristics,"
or pp. 105f, para. starting "What then are the consequences...".
After this point, it's two-part weekly assignments, as described
on the syllabus.
Oct. 12:
Extra bonus assignment!
Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature, either
p. 7, from "How could we recognize..." to "...a form of
mental functioning", or pp. 9f, from "if the task
of psychoanalysis is..." to "...rendering it into that form."
Oct. 19:
Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature, either
p. 34, from "Indeed, if one asks ..." to "...alternative to
the discharge model", or p. 44, first full para.,
from "There was, however..." to "...stability of a symptom."
Oct. 26:
Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature, either
pp. 169-170, from "In its most general terms..." to
"...identify with the love-object" and then on the next
page, from "So the process of psychic organization..." to
"...organization is achieved," or p. 177, first
full para. of sec IV,
from "For Freud..." to "...complexity and refinement."
Nov. 2:
Schechtman, The Constitution of Selves, either
pp. 131-132, from "The narrative self-constitution view
can, however, speak..." to
"...some of the most basic features of personhood" or
pp. 133-134, from "The narrative self-constitution view, on
the other hand..." to "...emphasized by bodily continuity theorists."
Nov. 9:
Schechtman, Staying Alive, either
pp. 12f, para. starting "There is no ambiguity..."
or
Williams, "The Makropulos Case," pick out one of
the (overlapping) arguments in the three-paragraph stretch
starting on p. 96 with "We can see better into that illusion..."
Nov. 16:
Schechtman, Staying Alive,
pp. 149f, from "This difference in
attitude..." to "...in philosophical reflection on them,"
or
Bratman, "Taking Plans Seriously,"
pp. 205f, two paras. starting "The difference in
motivational roles..."
Nov. 23:
Extra bonus assignment!
Bratman, Shared Agency, para. bridging pp. 100-101
("Well, in intending..."). (You'll need to keep the previous
para. in mind as you reconstruct this argument; bear in mind that
the Philosophy Department office will be closed on the due date.)
Nov. 30:
Bratman, Shared Agency, p. 63, from "So let me
turn..." to the end of the para., or from p. 65,
"A basic step in response to this challenge..." to the end
of the first full para. on 66, "...violate the own-action condition".
Dec. 7:
Bratman, Shared Agency, pp. 145f, from "That said,
the theory also leaves room..." to "...this potential
contribution to conflict resolution," or p. 127, the
two paragraphs starting with "I think that this is not in
general true."