There's still time to create your videos and take part in our 2026 #PERC video competition!
If questions about our responsibility to others & our planet make you think & you are in Year 11-13 this is the #competition for you.
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The 2026 #PERC video competition is now OPEN!
If questions about our responsibility to others & our planet make you think AND you are in school years 11-13 this is the competition for you.
More details here: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/perc
The 2025
#PERC
schools competition is OPEN!
If questions about our responsibility to others & our planet make you think AND you are in year 11-13 this is the competition for you.
Details here: uehiro.ox.ac.uk/perc
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"How am I responsible for the environment? If very ill patients want to die, should doctors be held responsible if they help them? Who is responsible for the global spread of infectious diseases?"
If these questions about our responsibility to others & our planet make you think AND you are in year 11-13 this competition is for you: https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/practical-ethics-and-responsibility-competition
This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers some of the philosophical questions arising from the coronation of a new king. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/153-philosophy-and-the-coronation-questions-raised-by-the-crowning-of-a-new-king
#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Coronation #CharlesIII #KingCharles #Democracy #Monarchy #Protest #Religion #Pluralism #Politics #Blog #ALevelPhilosophy
Any A-level philosophy students (or teachers) out there struggling with the AQA spec and it’s key-terms that have no glossary - behold: https://philosophy-gets-schooled.podbean.com/e/pgs-key-terms-bonanza/ This latest podcast episode focuses on all the key terms you need to know for the exams, explained with clarity and hopefully humour by myself, Ben Jones, and host, Simon Kirchin.
#Philosophy #PhilosophyALevel #PhilosophyTeachers #PhilosophyStudents #Podcast #PhilosophyGetsSchooled #ALevelPhilosophy #AQAPhilosophy #PhilosophyPodcast
Key Terms! Part 1: assertion/claim, proposition, true/false, justification, analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori. / Part 2 (starts: 22min05sec): argument, deductive/inductive/abductive, consistent/inconsistent/contradiction, proof, antecedent/consequent, tautology, dilemma (and Catch 22), paradox, fallacy, slippery slope. / Part 3 (starts 59min35sec): necessary/contingent, objective/subjective, agape, telos, via negativa and via positiva. DaN McKee and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]
As it's World Philosophy Day today I thought I'd give this another shot. Last time the post got boosted lots, but responses with suggestions still remained thin on the ground. Keep boosting it, but more suggestions please!
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Global and diverse Mastodon Philosophy folk - If you were structuring a two year course for 16-18 year olds to introduce them to epistemology, ethics, mind, and god, who are the female philosophers and philosophers of colour you would want to see take centre stage to diversify and decolonise a stale, male, and incredibly pale, philosophy curriculum?
The UK’s only A-level syllabus for Philosophy (AQA A-Level Philosophy) currently has some glaring omissions in terms of both representation of women (barely any) and representation of ethnicity (every named philosopher on the spec is white) on its reading list, caused by its generally problematic structure of focusing on ‘canon’ thinkers in the four topics it covers and no longer including political philosophy on the course. It needs changing, or at least supplementing by teachers outside of the curriculum, to give students a better taste of what’s out there than this limited and exclusionary vision of philosophy.
So what should we include?
Here’s links to the current spec contents if you want to know how it is being taught right now:
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy/a-level/philosophy-7172/subject-content/epistemology
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy/a-level/philosophy-7172/subject-content/moral-philosophy
#WorldPhilosophyDay #Philosophy #epistemology #ethics #mind #theology #diversify #decolonise #decolonize #ALevelPhilosophy #ALevel #curriculum #teachers
Global and diverse Mastodon #Philosophy folk - If you were structuring a two year course for 16-18 year olds to introduce them to #epistemology, #ethics, #mind, and #god, who are the female philosophers and philosophers of colour you would want to see take centre stage to #diversify and #decolonise a stale, male, and incredibly pale, philosophy curriculum?
The UK’s only A-level syllabus for Philosophy (AQA #ALevelPhilosophy) currently has some glaring omissions in terms of both representation of women (barely any) and representation of ethnicity (every named philosopher on the spec is white) on its reading list, caused by its generally problematic structure of focusing on ‘canon’ thinkers in the four topics it covers and no longer including political philosophy on the course. It needs changing, or at least supplementing by teachers outside of the curriculum, to give students a better taste of what’s out there than this limited and exclusionary vision of philosophy.
So what should we include?
Here’s links to the current spec contents if you want to know how it is being taught right now:
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy/a-level/philosophy-7172/subject-content/epistemology
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy/a-level/philosophy-7172/subject-content/moral-philosophy
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