250 – 300 Study Hours
Level 3 Difficulty
56 UCAS Points
AQA Awarding Body
Course Overview
All enrolments now will be for exams in Summer 2024 and beyond.
You will be required to complete the three standard written exams.
Official exams
- 3 hours, 50% of marks
- 3 hours, 50% of marks
We provide a guaranteed exam space in one of our exam centres around the Country, to take away the hassle of needing to find your own.
Assignments
During your course, you’ll be required to complete a number of assignments.
These do not contribute towards your final grade but provide you with an opportunity to submit work to your tutor for marking and feedback. This will help you to gauge your progress as you work through the course.
Course Content
- Philosophical terminology
- What is knowledge?
- Responses to Gettier
- Direct realism
- Indirect realism
- Berkeley’s idealism
- Rationalism, empiricism and innatism
- Innatism
- Empiricism: the tabula rasa argument
- The intuition and deduction thesis
- Empiricist responses
- Scepticism: the limits of knowledge
- Introduction to ethics
- Utilitarianism
- Kantian ethics
- Aristotelian virtue ethics
- Moral realism
- Moral anti-realism
- Applied ethics
- The concept of God
- The design argument
- Swinburne’s design argument
- The cosmological argument
- The ontological argument
- The problem of evil
- Religious language
- Introduction to the metaphysics of mind
- Substance of dualism
- Philosophical behaviourism
- Mind-brain type identity theory
- Eliminative materialism
- Functionalism
- Property dualism
- Functionalism
- Property dualism
- Epiphenomenalism

- Awarding body: AQA
- Our course code: X917
- Qualification code: 7172
The AQA qualifications are internationally recognised and taught in 30 countries around the world, highly valued by employers and universities and enable young people to progress to the next stage of their lives. AQA qualifications suit a range of abilities and include GCSEs, IGCSEs and A-levels.
Entry Requirements
Its recommended that you’re educated to GCSE standard or equivalent for the best chance at success.
Why Distance Learning?
If your Sixth Form doesn’t offer the courses you want – Study an A-Level through distance learning. You will sit the same exams and get the same A-Levels as you would in school, but are able to study at a time and place to suit you.
Plus, the results and transcript you’ll get will be exactly the same as if you’d studied in school, and your A Levels will be respected by colleges, universities and employers worldwide.
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