Monday, November 9, 2009

Possible Paper Articles

Here are some links to a variety of articles you could use for your paper on explaining and evaluating an article's argument:
  1. Bad Stereotyping: race & gender = insufficient info
  2. The Idle Life is Worth Living: in praise of laziness
  3. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: are some people just not meant for college?
  4. Who Would Make an Effective Teacher?: we're using the wrong predictors
  5. Study Says Social Conservatives Are Dumb: but that doesn't mean they're wrong
  6. The Financial Crisis Killed Libertarianism: if it wasn't dead to begin with
  7. How'd Economists Get It So Wrong?: Krugman says the least wrong was Keynes
  8. An Open Letter to Krugman: get to know your field
  9. Consider the Lobster: David Foster Wallace ponders animal ethics
  10. Genetically Engineered Pain Free Animals: would it be ethical to make 'em feel no pain?
  11. Is Worrying About the Ethics of Your Diet Elitist?: since you asked, no
  12. Loyalty is Overrated: adaptability & autonomy matter more
  13. FBI Profiling: it's a scam, like psychic cold reading
  14. Singer: How Much Should We Give?: just try to think up a more important topic
  15. Can Foreign Aid Work?: it has problems, but we should use it
  16. The Dark Art of Interrogation: Bowden says torture is necessary
  17. Opposing the Death Penalty: it's not about innocence
  18. You Don't Deserve Your Salary: no one does
  19. Against Free Speech: but it's free, so it must be good
  20. What pro-lifers miss in the stem-cell debate: love embryos? then hate fertility clinics
  21. Is Selling Organs Repugnant?: freakonomicists for a free-market for organs
  22. Why I Have No Future: Strawson's intuition that death's not bad
  23. Should I Become a Professional Philosopher?: hell 2 da naw
  24. Blackburn Defends Philosophy: it beats being employed
I Could Read All These

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