Another example: You could discuss many questions in psychology or the philosophy of mind asking how the specifically human aspects differ from what could be found in minds-in-general. This is well-defined enough to be discussed intelligently in a term paper.
(Such discussions in behavioral economics often compare humans to perfect rational agents; in ev.psych, the adaptive value of human psychological features are described. But rarely is the universe of minds under consideration explicitly expanded beyond the human.)
Another example: You could discuss many questions in psychology or the philosophy of mind asking how the specifically human aspects differ from what could be found in minds-in-general. This is well-defined enough to be discussed intelligently in a term paper.
(Such discussions in behavioral economics often compare humans to perfect rational agents; in ev.psych, the adaptive value of human psychological features are described. But rarely is the universe of minds under consideration explicitly expanded beyond the human.)