AS Level Philosophy (AQA)

AS Level Philosophy

Dates Available

• Week 1: Monday 25 March – Friday 29 March
• Week 2: Monday 1 April – Friday 5 April
• Week 3: Monday 8 April – Friday 12 April

Boards

AQA 7171

Length of Course

8 hour seminars

Times

9am to 6pm daily

1. Epistemology

1. What is knowledge? The tripartite view, Gettier problems and analyses of knowledge.
2. Perception as a source of knowledge. Direct realism, indirect realism and idealism.
3. Reason as a source of knowledge. Innatism and the intuition and deduction thesis.
4. The limits of knowledge. The distinction between normal incredulity and philosophical scepticism.

2. Moral philosophy

1. Normative ethical theories. Utilitarianism, Kantian deontological ethics, Aristotelian virtue ethics.
2. Applied ethics. Applying normative ethical theories to the issues of stealing, simulated killing, eating animals and telling lies.
3. Meta-ethics. Moral realism and moral anti-realism.