Assess one aspect of Alexander Pruss’s argument that abortion is generally impermissible, as follows:
Defend an interpretation of Pruss’s argument, and then raise one objection to one claim or inference in that argument, making clear why the objection counts as an objection to Pruss’s argument.
You may also respond to this objection on Pruss’s behalf, but you are not required to.
Steps to follow;
In your paper, you must do everything required of you by the paper prompt.
Purge your paper of anything that does not contribute, in some way or another, to your response to the paper prompt. Your paper should suggest obsession on your part with responding to the prompt.
In this paper and in all other papers for this course, you should feel no pressure whatever to defend views that you actually endorse (though it is of course often easier to defend views that you actually endorse than to defend views that you don’t actually endorse).
Write the best paper you can, even if you disagree with every claim in it. (If you wish to add a footnote at the beginning of your paper saying that you don’t actually endorse all of the claims in your paper, then feel free to do so. The footnote won’t contribute to the word count.)
Your paper must be clearly written throughout. Strive to prevent you from ever having to reread a sentence of yours.
You have to use the text when defending an interpretation of an author. Don’t just baldly attribute claims to the author you discuss. Direct quotations are necessary.
