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These are notes for the final session of the module - mostly to do with preparing for the final assessment.
Use the weeks before the exam to write the two essays required.
Make well-designed notes. Use the synopsis technique to draw your notes up.
Choose the questions which seem easiest to you but bear in mind:
1. Don't repeat work already submitted as an essay. Err on the side of safety.
2. Reading.
We are interested in you developing as an independent thinker, but probably all of us need to read what experienced/brilliant philosophers have written if we are to reach satisfying/passable levels of understanding. This reading prompts us into more subtle, sophisticated thinking, and often shows how what we would think if left to ourselves is untenable. My presentations should help, but an answer which doesn't bring in any other reading will be seen as weak. At this level my suggestion is that you find one serious and challenging piece of philosophy to expound and react to in your answer. You should choose what it is, but be careful to choose something at the right level. You are looking not for opinions or claims but for arguments with which you can engage.
3. A good format is: X says this. I think this is wrong because... (Thus separating exposition and critique.)
4. Think what you are good at. Forensic analysis of an argument or constructing a discussion of a broader question.
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| Created August 2009 | Prepared by VP The Value of Knowledge Home page A module of the BA Philosophy programme International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion | University of Central Lancashire |
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