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PHIL 151 WRITE-UP GUIDELINES  Every week you need to tum in one, 150-200 word write-up, due before class starts on Tuesday

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PHIL 151 WRITE-UP GUIDELINES 
Every week you need to tum in one, 150-200 word write-up, due before class starts on Tuesday. In your write-up, I would like you accurately and concisely summarize the central argument from one of the readings for the week (if we only have one reading that week, you need to summarize the argument from that reading; if we have more than one reading, you can choose). 
Note that there are usually many things one can take away from the course readings. I would like you to summarize what you think the main argument of the reading was--what was the author centrally trying to communicate? 
In your write-up: 
• Do not quote the course readings. • Summarize the main argument in your own words. • You can present the argument in 1/2/3 . . . premise/conclusion form, but you are not required to do this. However, if you do this and on do it weg you don't have to write 150 words. 
SAMPLE WRITE-UP 
In her (2000) paper "Gender and Race: (What) are they? (What) do we want them to be?", Sally Haslanger develops novel accounts of race and gender. Generally speaking, on her view of gender, someone is a woman just in case they are (1) taken to be female, and (2) subordinated because they are taken to be female. Equally, someone is a man on Haslanger's view just in case they are (1) taken to be male, and (2) privileged because they are taken to be male. Haslanger's view of race is similar: on her view, members of a social group are racialized as e.g., Black just in case they (1) are taken to have relatively close African ancestry, and (2) are subordinated because they are taken to have that ancestry. Haslanger acknowledges that her accounts of gender and race do not match up with how we typically think about these things, but that's ok on her view. Haslanger thinks we need to start thinking about gender and race differently in order to enact social change. 
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