Aristotle Rebecca
From Diana Nyad to One Direction (via Aristotle) At the start of the academic year it is probably a good time…
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Thinking philosophically Students every year report some disappointments with their grades (as well as some excellent results). Part of the problem…
Read MoreAdvanced Article:Hare and Universalisability
For an excellent article with many useful quotes and criticisms of Hare’s prescriptivism go to: http://www.indiana.edu/~socrates/papers/Hare%20on%20Universalizability.pdf
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Issues surrounding Contraception What are the ethical issues surrounding contraception? Ethical issues tend to fall into three categories: those concerning consequences…
Read MorePredictions 2013
I am very grateful to Laura Middleton of St Leonard's for sending me a list of predicted questions for this coming…
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Environmental Ethics What are the issues surrounding environmental ethics? This is the second blog leading up to the A level exam…
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Genetic Engineering In a twice weekly blog I give some advice on some A level issues very likely to be in…
Read MorePredicting exam questions
Predicting Exam Questions Every year I have a bit of fun trying to predict this year’s questions for the OCR exam…
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Exams are getting nearer! No-one likes exams (well if they do, I haven’t met them yet!). I used to get really…
Read MoreMiracles
Can we believe in miracles? The empiricist David Hume famously defined miracles as “a violation of a law of nature by…
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