RE: How's Everyone Feeling Right Meow?
December 29, 2016 at 7:31 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2016 at 7:33 am by emjay.)
Seriously thinking of doing an open study A Level in Philosophy. Over two years it covers four key subject areas: epistemology (so I can actually learn what that bloody word means 
), Ethics... including Aristotle and Kant, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mind. As a general rule I'm not very good at exam based courses because the pressure always gets to me and my mind goes blank... so I do much better at coursework based courses... but in this case I think I'd stand a chance of getting a fairly good grade because the latter subject is already second nature to me, the penultimate one is perhaps very well prepared for just by being on this site for the last couple of years, the second is what Nestor/Mudhammam has got me interested in reading about with Plato etc, and the first... who knows... pot luck on that So doing this course not only looks like a great way to test what I already do know, but also to learn in directions I'm already interested in and hopefully get a qualification out of it. If the exams are about the ideas then I should be okay, but if it just turns into a general knowledge quiz about names and dates, that's when I'm going to have a problem because I never remember stuff like that, even when not under pressure. But nonetheless it does sound like a generally win win thing to do, that should be a lot of fun. Worth £429 for a two year course I think.
), Ethics... including Aristotle and Kant, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mind. As a general rule I'm not very good at exam based courses because the pressure always gets to me and my mind goes blank... so I do much better at coursework based courses... but in this case I think I'd stand a chance of getting a fairly good grade because the latter subject is already second nature to me, the penultimate one is perhaps very well prepared for just by being on this site for the last couple of years, the second is what Nestor/Mudhammam has got me interested in reading about with Plato etc, and the first... who knows... pot luck on that So doing this course not only looks like a great way to test what I already do know, but also to learn in directions I'm already interested in and hopefully get a qualification out of it. If the exams are about the ideas then I should be okay, but if it just turns into a general knowledge quiz about names and dates, that's when I'm going to have a problem because I never remember stuff like that, even when not under pressure. But nonetheless it does sound like a generally win win thing to do, that should be a lot of fun. Worth £429 for a two year course I think.
