Each student will be asked to give a presentation to the seminar and submit a term paper. The presentation should be on some aspect of value theory, or exploration and critique of some philosophical article or book on value theory. The topic of the presentation/term paper is to be chosen by the student with the advice and consent of the instructor. The presentation (and subsequent term paper) should not be a rehash of something we have done in class, although it could take significantly further some issue that arose in class. The presentation (and subsequent term paper) will involve research, but it should also involve significant thought on your part. It should not simply be a report of facts of the case or of the thoughts of other people. You should grapple with the issues, whether the issues be philosophical or interpretive (or both). From time to time during the semester I may suggest possible topics.

You should plan for your presentation to take up eighty minutes, counting questions and discussion, so your talk should by itself last forty to fifty minutes.

There should be some feedback on the presentations from other members of the seminar both orally in the discussion period and in writing. (There will be a "short paper" assignment to critique the presentation.)

The term paper will typically be a written reworking of the presentation with the benefit of the discussion (oral and written) following the presentation.