留学美国最新JOHN LOCKE论文写作大赛题目一览
美国普林斯顿大学创建于1746年,位于美国东海岸新泽西州的普林斯顿市,是美国大学协会的14个始创院校之一,是常春藤联盟成员,也是是全美第五历史悠久的高等学府。近日来自美国普林斯顿大学等顶尖大学的资深学者组成的评审团将从7个学科类别(哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理学、神学和法律)以及1个JUNIOR类别中选出“最佳论文”。
文章要求
每篇文章只能讨论所选择的学科类别中的一个问题,但可以在不同领域中提交多篇文章,每篇不得超过2000字(不包括图表、数据表、脚注、参考书目或作者声明)
提交论文要通过John Locke官网的链接,需要将文档改成PDF格式提交,标题要遵循名字、姓氏、学科、问题编号的顺序。美国论文
John Locke是一年一度的论文竞赛,其参赛写作的论文偏学术,写作竞赛难度很高,非常考验学生的写作功底和英文水平。
论文题目
经济Economics
Q1.A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population.Suppose,instead,it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank?What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages?
政府通过向国民征税来为其自身支出提供资金。假设,政府所有开支完全依赖于央行新发行的货币?这样做的优势和/或劣势是什么?
Q2.In his thought experiment,the Iowa Car Crop,David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is,in an important sense,just another'technology'we can use for manufacturing cars,and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.
If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs,why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas,thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient?
David Friedman在他的思想实验“the Iowa Car Crop”中试图证明,从一种很重要的意义上讲,种植小麦只是我们用来制造汽车的另一种“技术”,在某些情况下,这种技术会高效很多。
如果国际贸易是一种使用价值更低的投入来生产更有价值的产出方式,那么政府为什么要设置关税和配额等贸易壁垒,从而迫使生产者造成浪费,降低效率呢?
如果我们取缔亿万富翁,会发生什么?
历史History
Q1.How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?
如果没有英国殖民主义的影响,如今的英国人将会更富有或贫穷多少?
Q2.Which has a bigger effect on history:the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?
哪一个对历史影响更大:权势者制定的计划还是他们犯的错误?
Q3.Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?
成功的社会变革运动与失败的社会变革运动相比特征有何不同?
心理学Psychology
Q1.Can happiness be measured?
幸福可以衡量吗?
在美国进行的调查中,超过一半的受访者表示,他们认为自己比他们国家位于魅力值中位数的那个人更有吸引力。我们该如何解释这点呢?
Q3.Are beliefs voluntary?
信仰是自愿的吗?
留学美国最新JOHN LOCKE论文写作大赛题目一览
神学Theology
Q1.What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?
小的宗教和大的邪教有什么区别?
Q2.If you cannot persuade your intelligent,sympathetic friends to embrace your religious belief system,do you have enough reason to believe what you believe?
如果你不能说服你聪明、有同情心的朋友接受你的宗教信仰体系,你有足够的理由去相信你所相信的吗?
Q3.What was God doing before He created the cosmos?
上帝在创造宇宙之前在做什么?
法律Law
Q1.Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women?
如果有更多的美国最高法院法官是女性,美国的司法会更加公正吗?
Q2.Suppose that you were contemplating,in violation of the rules of this competition,submitting an essay written for you by artificial intelligence.What would be the difference between such an act and ordinary attempted theft?
假设你正在考虑提交一篇由人工智能为你写的论文(此行为违反比赛规则),那么这种行为和普通的盗窃未遂有什么区别?
Q3.Are there too many laws?
现有的法律,是否过多了?
JUNIOR prize
Q1.Is safety more important than fun?
安全比乐趣更重要吗?
Q2.If you had$10 billion to spend on making the world better,how would you spend it?
如果你有100亿美元可以用来让世界变得更美好,你会怎么花这笔钱?
Q3.What,if anything,do your parents owe you?
如果有的话,你觉得你父母欠你什么?
Q4.What is something important,about which nearly everybody is wrong?
有什么事情是重要的,但几乎每个人(对这件事的认知)是错的?
Q5.Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?
为什么John Locke有时会被称为自由主义之父?
哲学Philosophy
Q1.A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are.How should they proceed?
有一批科学家想知道世界上有多少种性别存在。他们应该如何进行研究?
Q2.In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?美国留学写作
从哪种意义上说,今天的你和十岁时的你是同一个人?
Q3.Is tax theft?
税收是一种盗窃行为吗?
参赛对象要求
任何国家的学生都可以参加。在截止提交日期2023年6月30日前,参赛者须年满18岁或以下。Junior奖的选手年龄要求是必须在14岁或以下。