Pick a short passage in some of the reading this week, and give a brief account of its content. The passage might be anything from a single sentence to half a page or so. Your account might be just a paragraph in length, and I’m certainly not expecting it to be more than a page.

Your account will be too short to say everything that might be said about even a very short passage. In choosing what you do say, you should focus on the kind of questions that we will focus on in discussion: what seems to be meant by some claim? and on what does a claim seem to be based (i.e., what are the reasons that seem to intended to justify it)?

I’ll give you feedback on these, but I won’t grade them: you will get full credit simply for making a serious effort. While I’d be happy to accept your assignment on paper, it is more convenient for me to receive work electronically. Since I haven’t set up the course Moodle site for assignments, that means using e-mail. A short assignment like this could itself be the content of an e-mail message, but I’m also happy to get e-mail attachments.