<p>So, I am a sophomore whose credits total that of junior status. I will be beginning my official junior year next year and need to start working on my senior philosophy thesis. I am a double major, both philosophy and political science, and therefore, I have 4 major papers (3 of the 20 to 40 page length for my political science and political theory degree and my thesis for my philosophy degree of the 50 to xx page length) to write my senior year. My philosophy department has given me the OK to write my senior thesis junior year.</p>
<p>I was thinking about writing on some aspect of justice and/or freedom, but am having trouble picking a solid claim I want to test or where I even want to go within the topic of justice and/or freedom. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could go with it or what even in that area to write about?</p>
<p>Just a guess, but are you a McGill student?</p>
<p>Obviously it will be far better and the effort will seem a lot easier if you choose a thesis that interests you. However, if nothing is really hitting you here is a possible suggestion. Talk with your key professors in your major. Ask them if there are any research opportunities available. If not ask them about any ideas that they had for papers that they had an interest in but not the time to pursue. Point being is that you can go through a bunch of work to get a thesis done or you can go through a bunch of work and get both a thesis and a published paper (in conjunction with your professor done). Or you can get a thesis AND the research opportunity on your CV. There may be options to maximize your effort. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thank you for the suggestion! I will check talk to some of my professors tomorrow as I am scheduling for the fall term! </p>
<p>(…and I go to Mercyhurst)</p>
<p>Applications of Continental Philosophy to the Modern Political World?</p>
<p>Applications of Nietzschean Philosophy to US Foreign Policy?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I am going to look into both of those today!</p>
<p>haven’t you read anything in your three years’ worth of philosophy credits that just struck you as really wrong, or having a giant gaping hole in its argumentation? working off of that’s always the best way to write an insightful philosophy paper. read that book, read it over and over again, read secondary sources on it till you know it inside and out. i honestly think it’s an awful idea to use someone else’s prompt for a philosophy paper. a senior thesis should be you fleshing out some ideas you find really important and making an argument you can stand behind. are you planning to go onto phd studies?</p>