Course topics.

Try this with Philosophy & Reason

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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