Philosophical Writing
Subtitle: An Introduction
Edition: Fourth edition
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Published: June 2015
Language: eng
Format: eBook (PDF)
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781119010050
Subjects: Philosophy, authorship
Description: *Philosophical Writing: An Introduction, 4th Edition*, features numerous updates and revisions to A. P. Martinich’s best-selling text that instructs beginning philosophy students on how to craft a well-written philosophical essay.

 - Features an entirely new chapter on how to read a philosophical essay, new sections on quantification and modality, and rhetoric in philosophical writing, as well as more updated essay examples
 - Includes many new essay examples and an accompanying website with further topics and examples
 - Traces the evolution of a good philosophical essay from draft stage to completion
 - Emphasizes what a student should do in crafting an essay, rather than on what not to do
 - Written with clarity and humor by a leading philosopher
Table of contents: label: Note to the Fourth Edition
title: x; label: Note to the Third Edition
title: xi; label: Note to the Second Edition
title: xii; label: Introduction
title: 1; label: 1
title: Author and Audience
pagenum: 8; label: 1
title: The Professor as Audience
pagenum: 8; label: 2
title: The Student as Author
pagenum: 11; label: 3
title: Three Attitudes about Philosophical Method
pagenum: 15; label: 2
title: Logic and Argument for Writing
pagenum: 17; label: 1
title: What is a Good Argument?
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: Valid Arguments
pagenum: 21; label: 3
title: Cogent Arguments
pagenum: 31; label: 4
title: Quantification and Modality
pagenum: 35; label: 5
title: Consistency and Contradiction
pagenum: 40; label: 6
title: Contraries and Contradictories
pagenum: 43; label: 7
title: The Strength of a Proposition
pagenum: 46; label: 3
title: The Structure of a Philosophical Essay
pagenum: 51; label: 1
title: An Outline of the Structure of a Philosophical Essay
pagenum: 51; label: 2
title: Anatomy of an Essay
pagenum: 57; label: 3
title: Another Essay
pagenum: 63; label: 4
title: Composing
pagenum: 67; label: 1
title: How to Select an Essay Topic
pagenum: 68; label: 2
title: Techniques for Composing
pagenum: 69; label: 3
title: Outlining
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: The Rhetoric of Philosophical Writing
pagenum: 70; label: 5
title: Successive Elaboration
pagenum: 72; label: 6
title: Conceptual Note Taking
pagenum: 81; label: 7
title: Research and Composing
pagenum: 83; label: 8
title: Sentences and Paragraphs
pagenum: 84; label: 9
title: Polishing
pagenum: 87; label: 10
title: Evolution of an Essay
pagenum: 89; label: 5
title: Tactics for Analytic Writing
pagenum: 101; label: 1
title: Definitions
pagenum: 102; label: 2
title: Distinctions
pagenum: 108; label: 3
title: Analysis
pagenum: 111; label: 4
title: Dilemmas
pagenum: 119; label: 5
title: Scenarios
pagenum: 123; label: 6
title: Counterexamples
pagenum: 125; label: 7
title: Reductio ad Absurdum
pagenum: 132; label: 8
title: Dialectical Reasoning
pagenum: 138; label: 6
title: Some Constraints on Content
pagenum: 146; label: 1
title: The Pursuit of Truth
pagenum: 146; label: 2
title: The Use of Authority
pagenum: 147; label: 3
title: The Burden of Proof
pagenum: 150; label: 7
title: Some Goals of Form
pagenum: 152; label: 1
title: Coherence
pagenum: 152; label: 2
title: Clarity
pagenum: 156; label: 3
title: Conciseness
pagenum: 162; label: 4
title: Rigor
pagenum: 165; label: 8
title: Problems with Introductions
pagenum: 168; label: 1
title: Slip Sliding Away
pagenum: 168; label: 2
title: The Tail Wagging the Dog
pagenum: 173; label: 3
title: The Running Start
pagenum: 175; label: 9
title: How to Read a Philosophical Work
pagenum: 181; label: 1
title: Find the Thesis Sentence
pagenum: 181; label: 2
title: Precision of Words, Phrases, and Sentences
pagenum: 185; label: 3
title: Proving the Case
pagenum: 186; label: Appendix A
title: “It’s Sunday Night and I Have an Essay Due Monday Morning”
pagenum: 190; label: Appendix B
title: How to Study for a Test
pagenum: 193; label: Appendix C
title: Research: Notes, Citations, and References
pagenum: 195; label: Appendix D
title: Philosophy Resources on the Internet, by Neil Sinhababu
pagenum: 201; label: Appendix E
title: On Grading
pagenum: 205; label: Appendix F
title: Glossary of Philosophical Terms
pagenum: 208; label: Index
title: 218