Reading and Argument Analysis
TUT 100.32 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman
- Summary:
- You will write a brief analysis of your reading.
- Purpose:
- To practice
- reading and analysis skills for understanding an argument
- summarizing for "They Say" writing
- Due:
- 11:59 PM, Wednesday 22 September
- Turn In:
- Please e-mail me a copy of your responses as plain
text pasted into the message (no attachments).
Background
- Read Bekoff and Pierce's Chapter 3, "Cooperation."
Assignment
In this assignment you will analyze closely the argument and supporting
evidence given by Bekoff and Pierce. Please write the following for
your assigned section:
- one or two sentences summarizing the thrust of the section,
- one or two sentences stating/explaining how the section relates to
one or two other sections of your choosing (please specify by title
which section you refer to),
- and one or two sentences stating/explaining how the section relates
to the chapter as a whole.
You should imagine these as one paragraph, but breaking them up explicitly
will help me in formatting our discussion. In class on Thursday we
will discuss your summaries and how they relate to one another.
Sections
- Hart
- The Struggle for Existence
- Rocio
- Why Cooperate?
- Tamara
- The Cooperation Cluster at a Glance
- Jeremy
- Some Preliminary Clarification of Terms
- Seth
- From Neural Circuits to Social Circuits
- Taylor
- Ultimate and Proximate Explanations for Cooperative Behavior
- Molly
- If You Smell Like Me, You Must Be My Relative
- Brandon
- Mutualism
- Prof. Weinman
- Reciprocity
- Wilfredo
- Moral Emotions
- Adriyel
- Cognitive Foundations of Cooperation
- Adam
- Going Beyond the Primate Paradigm
- Emily
- Cooperation as Moral Behavior