- Include a cover sheet with the following information
- My name (This is the ONLY place My name should appear on the paper. Do NOT put it in the header at top of each page or anywhere else in the paper.)
- A title (this can be “Paper #2” or something more descriptive)
- The word count
- Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins all around.
- Your paper should be checked carefully for spelling and grammar errors. Spelling and grammar errors could very easily affect your score on the “clarity” component.
Bibliographic Guidelines:
- I don’t care what citation format you use, just make sure you’re consistent
- If citing a reading from the class, you can just cite author and page number (either in a parenthetical or in a (footnote), and you don’t need to include it in a bibliography
- If you have no outside sources, you do not need a bibliography.
- If you use any sources from outside the class readings, then you must have a bibliography with entries that give adequate information for the paper reader to find the source if they wish.
Topic
- Using the material from Gazzaniga and Shoemaker, offer an analysis of the earliest stage of development at which a biologically human organism plausibly has intrinsic moral value. If you argue that this earliest point is conception, explain two arguments raising problems for that view and offer replies to those arguments. If you argue for a point later than conception, explain one argument that supports an earlier stage and one argument that supports a later stage, and for each of these arguments, offer a reply.
Rubric: My grade will be based on 4 criteria: clarity, accuracy, relevance, and organization.