you have to tell me what it is. (I'm not a mind reader.)
please make it terse -- a paragraph
or two, not a chapter, or anything like a chapter.
(I have to read the passage side by side with your outline,
to check that the latter correctly represents the argument in the former.)
My experience is that attempts to outline longer stretches of text
don't generally work out well.
Aug. 27 (for those of you who have already taken a class
from me, who know what these outline
assignments -- not the same as microcommentary assignments!
-- are supposed to look like, and who want to get an early
start): Either
Pink, Free Will: A Very Short
Introduction, para. bridging pp. 38f ("But this is
not quite..."),
or
pp. 46-48, from "Take a case where..." through "...which
option in particular I follow".
Sept. 3: Either
Hume, first Enquiry, sec. 8, Part I, 5th para. ("It seems
evident that..."),
or
sec. 8, Part II, 4th para. ("The only proper object of
hatred or vengance...").
Sept. 10: Either
Ismael, "Rethinking Time and Determinism," pp. 150f, from
"Nor is the transcendent perspective..." to "...and nobody else,"
or
Ismael, "Free Will in the Physical World,"
from "When it comes to voluntary behavior in a
human being..." up to the end of the page (that is, up
to the next section,
"The self: what are you?").
Sept. 17: Either
Chisholm, "Human Freedom and the Self" (ch. 1 in Watson),
p. 35, para. starting "This means that, in one very strict sense...",
or
Robert Kane, "Responsibility, Luck, and Chance" (ch. 15 in Watson),
p. 308, from "The first step in response..." to the end of
the section.
Sept. 24: This time, three options, one of them unusual. Either
Harry Frankfurt, "The Faintest Passion," first 2 paras. of
sec. 8, from "Let me try briefly..." to "...appears to be doomed,"
or,
in sec. 5, 3 paras. starting "Since ambivalence is not a
cognitive deficiency..." (up to "...the people in his
stories"),
or the central argument of an entire (short)
paper, Frankfurt's "Alternate Possibilities and Moral
Responsibility." (If you outline this latter option, be
careful to keep it short and controlled -- on the model of
an outline of a tight paragraph.)
Oct. 1: Either
Dennett, Freedom Evolves, 112f, from "Now we are
ready..."
to "What difference could it make?",
or
Cartwright, The Dappled World, pp. 46f, from
"What then of the startling successes..." to "...are
true only of what we make"; make sure to pull the argument
away from the storytelling! (N.B.: this passage replaces
the one originally posted, which now is part of next
week's reading; if you started in outlining that passaage,
you're still welcome to turn it in.)
Oct. 8: Either
Cartwright, The Dappled World, para. bridging
pp. 58f, "So here is my strong claim..."
to "What difference could it make?",
or
p. 83, two paras. starting "One customary response..."