Benetar’s article and Krishnamurty’s article.

pick either Benetar’s article or Krishnamurty’s article. You will use one as a counterexample to the other. That is, if you pick Benetar, then first outline his argument in Premise/Conclusion form, then raise an objection to his argument from Krishnamurty’s position. Or vice versa. Essentially, the assignment is to unpack an author’s argument, state an objection to an author’s position and imagine the author’s reply. The point is to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the author’s position, to bring imagination into the construction and critique of arguments, and to get a sense of when progress is made in philosophy —that is, when objections refute positions and when positions answer objections. 1. Source(s). Give complete bibliographic citations for the argument to which you will object to. 2. Critic’s objection. State the objection in a few concise sentences of your own words. State it as an objection; don’t leave your reader to infer the objection from the positive statement of some alternative position. 3. Critic’s argument. Reconstruct and explicate the critic’s argument for the objection. Make the argument directly support the objection in Section 2. 4. Author’s defense. Creatively imagine the likely reply of the philosopher whose position has been criticized. Make the philosopher respond directly to what you had the critic say in Sections 2 and 3. 5. Critic’s reply. Creatively imagine the critic’s reply to the author’s defense. Make the critic’s reply directly responsive to what you had the author say in Section 4. Number the sections of your paper 1-5 (and/or label them, “Critic’s objection” etc.). This will make sure that your reader can find them and that you don’t accidentally conflate them. 6. Last, begin to adjudicate the dispute. Who is more likely right and why? Or, more modestly, whose position holds more promise or is more fruitful for this inquiry? Who has dealt more deeply and fairly with the issues? What questions would you want answered before you could adjudicate the dispute? Optional additions Supplement either side or both with your own thinking. But make it clear (in Sections 2, 3, and 5) where the historical critic ends and you begin, or (in Section 4) where the criticized author ends and you begin. Offer more than one objection (same author, same critic). If you do so, number them so that they are easy to find. For example, number the separate objections 2.A, 2.B, 2.C, etc., the arguments 3.A, 3.B, 3.C, etc., and so on with the replies and replies to the replies.