Assessment

The module is assessed by:

• One 2,500 word assignment (50%)
• One two hour seen examination (50%)

Assignment

Write a Plato-type dialogue (ie one following the model of one of Plato's Socratic dialogues - you studied Meno in Year 1) pursuing the following question:

"What is (or are) there?"

Your dialogue should be approximately 2,500 words long.

You can interpret the question in any coherent way - eg by pursuing Berkeley's notion that there are only minds, or the idea that there are a number of 'substances', or that there are qualities but no substances.

Submission

Assignments should be placed in the box marked “Philosophy” in Harrington 131 by 4pm on 6th November 2006.

Deadline

Remember the University policy of deducting marks from assignments that are handed in late. If you think you may have to submit your essay after the deadline has passed, please get word to me if at all possible before the deadline, and if necessary fill in an “Extenuating Circumstances” form.

Plagiarism

Of course the assignment has to be your own work! You are encouraged to cite other people’s work and ideas: but the 'citing' is essential. To copy or paraphrase someone else’s statements or arguments without making it explicitly clear what you are doing —so that the reader is given the impression that this work is yours—is a form of theft called plagiarism (which can bring down some very heavy-duty penalties, as you know from induction week and the course handbook).