Philosophy study guides
SQA-HIGHER · Higher (SQA) · aligned to SQA.
- Arguments in Action: overview of SQA Higher Philosophy logic and reasoning skills
An overview of the Arguments in Action area of SQA Higher Philosophy: recognising and laying out arguments, deductive validity and soundness, valid and invalid forms, inductive reliability, fallacies, and evaluating arguments by acceptability, relevance and sufficiency.
📖 9 min readHigher - Course Assessment: overview of the SQA Higher Philosophy question papers
An overview of the SQA Higher Philosophy course assessment: the externally marked question papers across the three areas of study, the command words (describe, explain, analyse, evaluate), and how to convert your knowledge into marks.
📖 8 min readHigher - Knowledge and Doubt: overview of SQA Higher Philosophy epistemology
An overview of the Knowledge and Doubt area of SQA Higher Philosophy: the problem of knowledge and scepticism, Descartes' rationalism and the method of doubt, Hume's empiricism, and how to evaluate the two rival theories of knowledge.
📖 9 min readHigher - Moral Philosophy: overview of SQA Higher Philosophy ethics
An overview of the Moral Philosophy area of SQA Higher Philosophy: the nature of moral decisions and key concepts, utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill), Kantian deontology, and how to apply and evaluate the rival moral theories.
📖 9 min readHigher