PLEASE DO THE EXTRACTION and complete the assignment
Thad Botham, Ph.D. Oppy vs. Collins 2x2 2 Essays & 2 Extractions (with your personal evaluation) 4 points pass/fail. This assignment is graded pass/fail, where a passing grade meets or surpasses a minimal standard for a university-level student at this point in the course. After grasping the material covered in Thad’s Logic Crash Course and in Thad’s document ‘What is an Extraction?’, include the following in a single Word document: (i) An Extraction of Collins’s argument that you advance in your 1-page Summary (you may re-write your 1-page Summary to match this Extraction); a. Beneath this extraction, include your own personal critical evaluation of the argument by citing the number of each basic premises with which you disagree, and including a description of your counterexample; (ii) Your 1-page Summary of Collins’s argument, which now matches your Extraction in (i); (iii) An Extraction of Oppy’s argument that you advance in your 1-page Summary (you may re-write your 1-page Summary to match this Extraction); (iv) Your 1-page Summary of Oppy’s argument, which now matches your Extraction in (iii); and a. Beneath this extraction, include your own personal critical evaluation of the argument by citing the number of each basic premises with which you disagree, and including a description of your counterexample. Be sure your extractions follow the guidelines in our course document ‘What is an Extraction?’. Compile and submit. Lump together into a single Word document these four (4) written assignments and submit them here. *********************************************** Should you like to consult the instructions for the earlier Oppy vs. Collins 1x1 assignment, here they are: Locate on Canvas and study with intensity the following two essays: · Collins, Robin (2018) 'The Case for Divine Creation from Cosmic Fine-tuning' · Graham Oppy’s (2018) 'A Case for Atheism from Naturalism' After grasping the material covered in Thad’s Logic Crash Course, write a 1-page (1-page maximum!!) essay that summarizes Collins’s argument, AND write a 1-page (1-page maximum!!) essay that summarizes Oppy’s Fine-Tuning argument, which occurs on pages 4 and 6-7 of the PDF. Titled, 11 or 12pt. font, standard double-spacing, and 1-inch margins. Roughly, 250-300 words. Don't waste space with unnecessary words. Don't waste space by including the course number, my name, etc. as a header. Be sure that each philosopher would endorse your summary of his argument. Stick as closely as you can to their claims. You may quote them, where finding the exact wording is critical. Avoid adding your own terminology or concepts. Find that delicate balance between being as informative and detailed as possible, on the one hand, and being as concise as possible, on the other hand. Avoid fluff. For example, you should absolutely avoid sentences such as, “Humans have been debating the existence of God for centuries,” or “The existence of God has perplexed people since the beginning of time,” or other such uninformative and fluffy claims. Include only sentences that capture the essential claims of their arguments. Be sure your essays include no misspellings and are grammatically and stylistically polished. Know the difference between: · it’s vs. its · then vs. than · there vs. their vs. they’re · Oppys vs. Oppy’s TIPS Be sure every conditional claim both includes the words ‘if’ and ‘then’ and includes a comma immediately before your term ‘then’. Understand that ‘unless’ abbreviates ‘if it is not the case that’. Expressing your claims clearly will help you apply Thad’s method for describing counterexamples to conditional claims. For example, · NO: If there are two competing theories and one is simpler than the other then, unless the more complex theory provides a better explanation of something than the simpler theory, one should endorse the simpler theory. · YES: IF there are two competing theories and one is simpler than the other, THEN if it is not the case that the more complex theory provides a better explanation of something than the simpler theory, then one should endorse the simpler theory. Compile your two (2) 1-page essays into a single 2-page Word document. Submit this single Word document here. 2 Thad Botham, Ph.D. Oppy vs. Collins 1x1 Two Summaries at 1-page each 4 points pass/fail. Locate on Canvas and study with intensity the following two essays: · Collins, Robin (2018) 'The Case for Divine Creation from Cosmic Fine-tuning' · Graham Oppy’s (2018) 'A Case for Atheism from Naturalism' After grasping the material covered in Thad’s Logic Crash Course, write a 1-page (1-page maximum!!) essay that summarizes Collins’s argument, AND write a 1-page (1-page maximum!!) essay that summarizes Oppy’s Fine-Tuning argument, which occurs on pages 4 and 6-7 of the PDF. Titled, 11 or 12pt. font, standard double-spacing, and 1-inch margins. Roughly, 250-300 words. Don't waste space with unnecessary words. Don't waste space by including the course number, my name, etc. as a header. Be sure that each philosopher would endorse your summary of his argument. Stick as closely as you can to their claims. You may quote them, where finding the exact wording is critical. Avoid adding your own terminology or concepts. Find that delicate balance between being as informative and detailed as possible, on the one hand, and being as concise as possible, on the other hand. Avoid fluff. For example, you should absolutely avoid sentences such as, “Humans have been debating the existence of God for centuries,” or “The existence of God has perplexed people since the beginning of time,” or other such uninformative and fluffy claims. Include only sentences that capture the essential claims of their arguments. Be sure your essays include no misspellings and are grammatically and stylistically polished. Know the difference between: · it’s vs. its · then vs. than · there vs. their vs. they’re · Oppys vs. Oppy’s TIPS Be sure every conditional claim both includes the words ‘if’ and ‘then’ and includes a comma immediately before your term ‘then’. Understand that ‘unless’ abbreviates ‘if it is not the case that’. Expressing your claims clearly will help you apply Thad’s method for describing counterexamples to conditional claims. For example, · NO: If there are two competing theories and one is simpler than the other then, unless the more complex theory provides a better explanation of something than the simpler theory, one should endorse the simpler theory. · YES: IF there are two competing theories and one is simpler than the other, THEN if it is not the case that the more complex theory provides a better explanation of something than the simpler theory, then one should endorse the simpler theory. Compile your two (2) 1-page essays into a single 2-page Word document. Submit this single Word document here.