2. what you are going to learn
1. Planning your Presentation
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
4. Delivering your Presentation
3. 1. Planning your Presentation
your presentation has a purpose and has constraints
plan to
1. achieve your purposes
2. meet your constraints
4. 1. Planning your Presentation
~ purposes ~
get a job instruct students
purposes
impress your peers
convince your
audience that p
convey information
5. 1. Planning your Presentation
~ constraints ~
constraints
time
equipment
audience place
formal/informal?
one-way/
interactive/
question period?
6. 2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
~ Intro ~
1. Tell ‘em what you are going to tell ‘em
2. Tell it to ‘em
3. Tell ‘em what you’ve told ‘em.
Intro
Argument
Conclusion
7. 2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
~ the Argument ~
All (good) philosophical papers and presentations are
arguments of one sort of another
therefore
The structure of the presentation
should follow the structure of your argument
8. 2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
~ the Argument ~
what is the main point you want to get across?
start there and work back,
constructing your argument to
lead to that conclusion
9. 2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
~ the Argument ~
talks and written papers are different
media with different purposes and
constraints
10. 2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
~ the Argument ~
~ how much detail? ~
Your presentation need not contain
everything you want to say about a given topic
It is often a good idea to leave stuff out
1. Too much detail can obscure the structure of your argument
2. You can leave clever response to problems to the question period
if it is not essential, often best to leave it out
11. 2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
~ the Conclusion ~
Use your conclusion
1. to remind people of:
i. your main points
ii. how they fit together
2. to point out the significant/relevance of your argument
3. to gesture towards possible future developments
12. 3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
use more than one medium,
engage more than one sense
not ephemeral,
reference material
PowerPoint and handout must enhance a presentation
13. 3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
some arguments are complex
and are better understood written down
use the spatial potential (diagrammes etc.)
14. assume P
if P then
either Q or R
Q R
S S
S
conclusion: P entails S
15. 3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
easy to emphasize
important points/refer to
important ideas
aide-memoire
16. advantages of PowerPoint
• can be attractive
• easy to use helpful devices
• easy to update
• can turn into handout
17. disadvantages of PowerPoint
• potential for technical problems
• sometimes difficult to refer back to a slide
• can be used badly
• semi-ephemeral
18. advantages of handout
• all relevant information in front of audience
• something for them to hold on to
19. 4. Delivering your Presentation
Be prepared
Practice
time yourself
record yourself
20. 4. Delivering your Presentation
engage with your audience
don’t read your
handout/
PowerPoint
look at
your
audience
21. 5. Conclusion
• Plan your presentation carefully with purposes
and constraints in mind
• Structure your presentation around an argument
• Use a handout of PowerPoint presentation to
enhance your presentation
• Prepare yourself carefully
