October 6, 2011 by

Activity: Problems with Aristotle – Community of Enquiry

Beginning a Community of Enquiry The community of enquiry is an excellent way to get your students to think about engaging…

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September 30, 2011 by

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September 28, 2011 by

Handout: Aristotle’s Four Causes and Prime Mover

The Nature Of Stuff According To Aristotle Aristotle’s description of the four causes is relatively easy to understand but there are…

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September 28, 2011 by

Advanced Article: Peter Geach Good and Evil

Peter Geach argues that GE Moore confuses predicative adjectives “a brown horse” with attributive adjectives eg “a good philosopher” – where…

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September 28, 2011 by

Extract 2: G.E.Moore on the Naturalistic Fallacy

Moore is a non-naturalist cognitivist (it’s not just the non-cognitivists like Ayer and Hare who are non-naturalists as Jill Oliphant’s textbook…

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September 22, 2011 by

What is meant by “relativism”?

Relativism is the first topic on the OCR syllabus. Truth is, it’s one of the hardest to pin down.

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September 22, 2011 by

Powerpoint: Getting Critical With Plato

Getting Critical With Plato Assessing Plato A02 from Philosophical Investigations The PowerPoint above can be used in part or in full….

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September 15, 2011 by

Note Taking

Take Notes There are 8 proven ways to improve the quality of the notes that you take for A’ Level. The…

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September 15, 2011 by

What the text books don’t tell you about Plato

Confused by Plato’s Cave and The World of Forms? I watch with increasing amusement year on year as pupils trade indignant…

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September 11, 2011 by

Handout: Aquinas’ Five Ways

Five Ways Aquinas’ Five Ways (Download) The first three of Aquinas’ five ways are cosmological in nature.  The cosmological argument is the…

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