Term paper and presentation

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There are four research articles in the set below.  You will choose one of these articles to write and prepare a presentation for the class.  This will be similar to a term paper (and will include a significant writing component), but will mostly resemble a “Journal Club” where articles are presented in a manner that the audience learns something new about current research in the field.
Create a 2 page summary and 10 slide presentation along with a side paper including talking points when presenting the power point.

Total Rewards in the Global Marketplace

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Select a country other than the United States, and based upon your research for that country, how do employee compensation and benefits compared to what is offered in the United States?  Provide some specific examples?  Are there any benefits offered that are not offered here in the U.S.; if so, do you think the American employee would be interested? 

The Role of the Public Commemorative Monument

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This is a broad topic and you will need to find a narrow focus within it. Your paper should have at least five (5) academic references- a min of 2 ebooks, 2 academic journals and 1 website. You can exceed this.

-Sources such as Wikipedia, Brittania, Encarta, or any other online dictionaries or other very short non-academic Internet entries like artsy, artstory, youtube, videos are NOT allowed.

-The monuments I have chosen are within Islamic art : I have attached the monument titles for you to look at as well as citations for journals and the pdf’s for the journals and articles.

Formatting Guidelines:

-Cite dates as follows:  1832-1836; 15 July 1836; the fifteenth-century; c. 1500; fifteenth-century houses.

-Place quotations within double inverted commas; quotations within quotations in single inverted commas.  Quotations more than 6 lines long should start on the next line and use a single-spaced block quote format.

– Images are to be included at the back of your essay in an image appendix

Knowledge, Truth, Ethics, and Freedom

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INSTRUCTIONS

Pick three questions from your primary specialty to write on and two questions from your secondary specialty to write on. For example, if you’ve chosen Ethics as your primary specialty and Truth as your secondary speciality, then you are responding to three of the Ethics questions below and two of the Truth questions. You should be submitting five essays total.

Each essay should be 2-3 paragraphs. Essays should be numbered (using the numbers from the questions below) and submitted all together as one document.

To review the details regarding your primary and secondary specialty, see the study guidePreview the document from last week.

QUESTIONS (Choose 3 from one category and 2 from another category.)

Knowledge

1. What leads Russell in The Problems of Philosophy to conclude that the real table, if there is one, is not immediately known to us at all, but must be an inference from what is immediately known (194)?

2. What is it in Meditation II that Descartes concludes he cannot doubt? How does he arrive at this conclusion?

3. It is common today for people to believe that all knowledge comes from the senses. Some of the most famous arguments in the history of philosophy are those that attempt to demonstrate why this is false. Explain the argument that either Descartes in Meditation II or Leibniz in New Essays on Human Understanding gives to demonstrate this point.

4. How does Humes fork between relations of ideas and matters of fact lead him into skepticism?

Truth

5. What is the correspondence theory of truth? Explain how either Kant or Hegel challenged this common way of thinking about truth.

6. What is relativism? Is it the case that someone who rejects the correspondence theory of truth is necessarily a relativist?

7. Why according to Grosz and Narayan is it important to consider the history of womens subordination when searching for truth? What does it mean to think critically in light of this history?

8. Do all feminist epistemologists accept an empiricist account of knowledge? Explain. (Remember to review the discussion of feminist epistemology in Lecture 6 for this one.)

Freedom

9. Those who believe that there is a god that is all-powerful and all-knowing struggle to explain how the human beings created by this god can be free. Different religious philosophers over the centuries have responded differently to this problem some arguing that humans are not free and others trying to reconcile Gods omnipotence with the idea of human freedom. Explain how one of the religious philosophers presented in the chapter (Augustine, Muhammad Iqbal, or John Edwards) deals with this problem.

10. Explain why hard determinists cannot see people as responsible for their actions.

11. What are the implications of giving up the determinists premise that every event has a sufficient natural cause? Would abandoning this claim solve the problem of freedom?

12. What does Frankfurt mean by first-order and second-order desires? Using an example of your own, explain why a person who only acts on first-order desires is not really free.

Ethics

13. Is compassion natural to human beings? In your answer, make sure you draw from arguments presented in Chapter 8 by Mencius, Joseph Butler, and/or Plato (in the excerpt on The Ring of Gyges from the Republic) to make your case.

14. What is the difference between acting out of duty and acting in accordance with duty? Why is it only the first of these actions that has moral worth for Kant?

15. Come up with an example of your own to help explain how you use Kants categorical imperative as a test to determine if an action is morally permissible.

16. Come up with an example of your own to help explain how you use Mills Greatest Happiness Principle to determine which of two actions is ethically better.

The Text book is
introducing philosophy
A text with integrated Readings 11th edition