Melbourne Philosophical Import Paper

Content: Your final paper should examine an issue of philosophical import in some depth. This may be done in a variety of ways, but the paradigmatic example would be to discuss what one philosopher says about the issue, discuss how another philosopher disagrees, and finally offer your own evaluation of these two differing views–for example, by synthesizing them, denying them both, or arguing that one is more plausible than the other for whatever reason. Fortunately, you have a rough draft of precisely that paper already written, so the best way to complete this assignment will be to go back to your three short papers, edit them in accordance with the feedback you’ve been given, add an introduction, conclusion, and transition paragraphs, and polish it until it shines. The final product should be about 2000 words.The issue you examine may be a metaphysical claim, a value claim, or an epistemological claim, but it should be one of those! Your paper should cite few sources–obviously you should cite the original or translated work of any philosopher you discuss, but beyond that you should not use more than three or four other sources. Your bibliography should not be included in your word count. I do not have a citation format preference beyond “consistent.”Your paper will be graded across five areas: