[e-mail] From Thu Mar 8 20:25:36 2007
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:25:12 -0500
From: "William J. Rapaport" <[e-mail]>
Subject: POSITION PAPER #4 COMPETITION!
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Announcing a competition for Position Paper #4!
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Some of you have told us that you would like to come up with your own
arguments instead of merely analyzing ones that we give you.
Here's your opportunity!
No later than
Wednesday, March 21
try your hand at creating an argument relevant to one of the topics of
this course. It could be on a topic that we've already discussed, on a
topic that going we're to discuss (take a look at the syllabus or the
directory of documents for ideas), or on some other topic in the
philosophy of computer science (take a look at the What Is Philosophy
of Computer Science? webpage for ideas).
Your argument should have at least two premises and at least one
conclusion. Try to make it a *valid* argument!
The "winner" (if there is one--we reserve the right to decide not to
choose one) will have the honor of her or his argument being used as the
argume...