Year 12 · QCE / Philosophy & Reason
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Topics in the resource inventory
- Anatomy of an argument: premises, conclusions and standard form
- Deduction, induction and the criteria for judging arguments
- Symbolic logic: operators, valid forms and formal fallacies
- Informal fallacies and cognitive bias
- Utilitarianism
- Kantian ethics and virtue ethics
- Philosophical schools of thought
- Natural rights and social contract theory
- Property, harm and the veil of ignorance
- Contemporary rights questions
- The vocabulary of political philosophy
- Anarchism
- Libertarianism
- Social liberalism
- Socialism
- From assumptions to the ideal society
- Comparing the four philosophies on recurring EA issues
- Deconstructing and evaluating stimulus arguments
- Writing the external-assessment analytical essay
- The marking guide decoded
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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