From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Mar 8 20:25:36 2007 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:25:12 -0500 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: POSITION PAPER #4 COMPETITION! To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU ======================================================================== Announcing a competition for Position Paper #4! ======================================================================== Some of you have told us that you would like to come up with your own arguments instead of merely analyzing ones that we give you. Here's your opportunity! No later than Wednesday, March 21 try your hand at creating an argument relevant to one of the topics of this course. It could be on a topic that we've already discussed, on a topic that we're going to discuss (take a look at the syllabus or the directory of documents for ideas), or on some other topic in the philosophy of computer science (take a look at the What Is Philosophy of Computer Science? webpage for ideas). Your argument should have at least two premises and at least one conclusion. Try to make it a *valid* argument! The "winner" (if there is one--we reserve the right to decide not to choose one) will have the honor of her or his argument being used as the argument to be analyzed for Position Paper #4. (To make it interesting and fair, for his or her position-paper assignment, the winner may be asked to *refute* the argument :-) You may submit the argument on paper in lecture or by email. We also reserve the right to slightly modify the argument, if we feel that would make it more interesting.