Title Statements
- Full title :Philosophical writing : an introduction / A.P. Martinich.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2016
- Edition:Fourth edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Chichester, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (236 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781119010050, 1119010055
- oclc:ocn967754109
- LC Classification:B52.7
- Dewey Decimal:808.06/61
Table of Contents
Philosophical Writing; Contents; Note to the Fourth Edition; Note to the Third Edition; Note to the Second Edition; Introduction; 1 Author and Audience; 1 The Professor as Audience; 2 The Student as Author; 3 Three Attitudes about Philosophical Method; 2 Logic and Argument for Writing; 1 What is a Good Argument?; 2 Valid Arguments; 3 Cogent Arguments; 4 Quantification and Modality; 5 Consistency and Contradiction; 6 Contraries and Contradictories; 7 The Strength of a Proposition; 3 The Structure of a Philosophical Essay; 1 An Outline of the Structure of a Philosophical Essay
2 Anatomy of an Essay3 Another Essay; 4 Composing; 1 How to Select an Essay Topic; 2 Techniques for Composing; 3 Outlining; 4 The Rhetoric of Philosophical Writing; 5 Successive Elaboration; 6 Conceptual Note Taking; 7 Research and Composing; 8 Sentences and Paragraphs; 9 Polishing; 10 Evolution of an Essay; 5 Tactics for Analytic Writing; 1 Definitions; 2 Distinctions; 3 Analysis; 4 Dilemmas; 5 Scenarios; 6 Counterexamples; 7 Reductio ad Absurdum; 8 Dialectical Reasoning; 6 Some Constraints on Content; 1 The Pursuit of Truth; 2 The Use of Authority; 3 The Burden of Proof
7 Some Goals of Form1 Coherence; 2 C…
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