Monday Weekly 200
Each student must submit one of their Weekly 200s on Monday morning, and it must be a critical summary of the reading for that week. Each student will have different due dates, and these will be assigned on the second day of class. Keep in mind that if you’re up for Monday 200, then you need to be finished with the reading much earlier than you might otherwise finish it.
In these posts, do not bother summarizing the entire reading, but just a single argument that occurs in the reading. You may present this in numbered premise form, I would like you to also present some possible objections to the argument (even if you think the argument is a good one).
Research Posts
Each student must present, explain, and evaluate an argument in a post that comes from some article in some philosophy journal. These posts will train you to find high quality scholarly articles, and may serve as spring boards for the final paper.
(I’ll be devoting a class session to giving you tips on finding a suitable article)
General Info Writing Posts
Students from all of my classes will participate in the same discussion blog. This has several benefits from your usual class discussion board. First, students will have the opportunity to read about other philosophical problems. Second, students will have to be conscientious in writing their posts. Each student should realize that two-thirds of the readers may not be familiar with the course material. The first student who wants to discuss something from class or their reading will be obliged to make it clear to someone who was not in class (or is not familiar with the reading) what the issue is.
To write a post you must be logged in and go to the dashboard. Click here. If you’re logged in, you’ll go to the dashboard. If you’re not logged in, you will go to a login page and then be taken to the dashboard.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Wordpress Interface – here’s a very nice visual aid about how to write posts.
More Information About Posting to the Blog
Always Choose At Least a Class Category
- You won’t get credit if you don’t
- Student’s Will Be Able to Browse Posts By Type
- Class Categories: (the name of the course) e.g. Philosophical Inquiry
This Blog is Publicly Viewable
- Anybody can read it, but you may post under a nickname if you choose.
- Also, you may check “private” when you publish your post, if you only want the class to view it.
- All students are required to read the course Privacy Statement. It outlines some additional privacy options for you.
2/3 of your readers are not in class with you
- Your analysis posts really need to do a good job of summarizing the other posts for students who are not familiar with the material (because, well, they’re actually not familiar with it.)
- You also need to be mindful to tag your post, so that students in your class who want to quickly scan posts from our class will see your post. To help insure this, uncategorized posts will not get full credit.