• A-Level Philosophy Full Syllabus Pack cover (Note Pack and Model Answers): a pocket watch with notes on determinism and free will
  • A-Level Philosophy Note Pack cover: a pocket watch with notes on determinism and free will
  • Contents page of the A-Level Philosophy Note Pack: Modules 1, 2 and 3
  • Fallacies page: the argument from ignorance with its structure, an example and how to spot it
  • Worked logic examples: truth tables testing a valid and an invalid argument, counter-interpretation highlighted
  • Epicurus on atoms and the void, with a diagram of the soul's atoms at death
  • Kant section opener with his index card: dates, key works and core idea, then key terms
  • How Paper II works: the four Parts of Module 3, whether you can specialise, and how to answer the extract question
  • Module 3: Plato's three parts of the soul matched to the three classes of the city, as a diagram
  • Set-text guide to Plato, Republic 509d to 521b: what the passage is about, how to read it, and a QR code to the set texts page
  • Set-text guide walk-through of the passage: the Divided Line, with a table of its four sections
  • Module 3 diagram: rationalism and empiricism as two routes from the new science to Kant
  • Answers to the Check yourself questions at the end of every section, grouped by section
  • Glossary and Index: every key term with a one-line meaning, its section and its page
  • A-Level Philosophy Model Answers cover: a pocket watch with notes on determinism and free will
  • Contents page of the A-Level Philosophy Model Answers, first page
  • How You Are Marked: both papers at a glance and where logic marks are won and lost
  • What Loses Marks: a mid-band logic answer with every slip marked and what it cost
  • Practice Paper 1: a complete Section A logic paper in the exam format
  • Worked solutions to Practice Paper 1 with handwritten notes on where each mark comes from
  • First page of a model essay on the Sophists: the title, a numbered plan and margin notes
  • Model essay on Kant's two kinds of imperative: title, plan and opening paragraphs with margin notes
  • Module 3 model essay on Plato's Cave, the Forms and the Line, with plan and margin notes
  • Module 3 model essay on determinism and responsibility, with plan and margin notes
  • Extract answer on Plato, Republic VII: the questions and full answers with margin notes
  • Extract answer on Nagel's Free Will: where the passage is, an outline of it, and the questions

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Everything for A-Level Philosophy (MATSEC AM 25), both papers: a Note Pack that teaches the full syllabus in 59 sections, and a Model Answers book with 6 logic practice papers solved in full, 66 model essays and 15 extract answers.

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What's inside?

  • Note Pack: 59 sections in syllabus order: 11 on Logic and Reasoning, 12 on Ethics and Society and 36 on Key Questions in European Thought
  • 51 truth tables, worked out line by line in the order the papers use
  • 75 diagrams and 144 tables, including side-by-side comparisons of the thinkers
  • An index card for each philosopher: dates, key works and the core idea
  • Every fallacy on the syllabus, each with its structure, an example and how to spot it
  • Every section ends with In the exam: the ways the topic is asked and a short plan for answering
  • 347 Check yourself questions, a few at the end of every section, with the answers at the back
  • A Glossary and Index of 861 key terms, each with a one-line meaning and its page
  • 11 set-text guides covering all 12 set texts for Paper II, each with a walk-through of the passage and what examiners link it to
  • Model Answers: 6 complete Section A logic papers in the exam format, each with a full-marks worked solution
  • Between them, the 6 papers cover all 29 types of logic question found in past papers
  • 31 model essays for Paper I Section B, at least one for every Ethics topic
  • 35 model essays for Paper II Section B, across Module 3
  • 15 extract answers for Paper II Section A, on passages from all 12 set texts
  • Each essay has a plan and margin notes on what each paragraph does, at 850 to 950 words: what a strong candidate can write by hand in an hour
  • How You Are Marked: where the marks go, and what earns or loses them
  • What Loses Marks: mid-band answers with every slip marked, to compare with the model answers
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How many pages?

  • Note Pack + Model Answers: 736 pages in two PDFs
  • Note Pack only: 415 pages
  • Model Answers only: 321 pages
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Who is it for?

  • Students sitting MATSEC Advanced Level Philosophy (AM 25)
  • Written for self-study: every topic is explained, not just summarised, so you can learn it on your own
  • Paper I and the Intermediate paper share the same syllabus, so the logic and ethics are taught in full here
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Which exam does it match?

  • MATSEC Advanced Level Philosophy (AM 25), the current syllabus, both papers
  • Paper I (three hours): Section A Logic, three structured questions out of four (30 marks); Section B Ethics, the compulsory essay and one more (70 marks)
  • Paper II (three hours): Section A, questions on a passage from one of the 12 set texts (30 marks); Section B, two essays out of five (70 marks)
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Which sections are covered?

  • Module 1, Logic and Reasoning: 1.1 Deduction and Induction; 1.2 Truth and Validity; 1.3 Fallacies; 1.4 Elementary Propositions; 1.5 Complex Propositions and the Logical Junctors; 1.6 Translating between English and Symbols; 1.7 Truth Tables and Valid Arguments; 1.8 Logically True Propositions; 1.9 Implication, Equivalence, Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens; 1.10 Valid Forms and Admissible Rules; 1.11 Properties of the Junctors
  • Module 2, Ethics and Society: 2.1 The Sophists: Truth is Relative; 2.2 Socrates: Moral Optimism; 2.3 Aristotle: Practical Ethics to Achieve Self-Fulfilment; 2.4 Epicurus: Practical Ethics as Pleasure Seeking; 2.5 Kant: Doing Good for its Own Sake; 2.6 Utilitarianism: The Best Outcome; 2.7 Nietzsche: Should One Be Moral?; 2.8 Sartre and Existentialism: Freedom and Choice; 2.9 The Internet and Ethical Values; 2.10 Privacy and Cyberspace; 2.11 Reproductive Technology; 2.12 Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
  • Module 3, Key Questions in European Thought: 3.1 Plato: the Cave, the Forms and the Soul; 3.2 Aristotle: Being, Knowledge and the Social Animal; 3.3 Hobbes: the State of Nature and the Social Contract; 3.4 Locke: Natural Rights and a Society of Free Persons; 3.5 Rousseau: Innocence, Inequality and the General Will; 3.6 What Is a Person?; 3.7 Personal Identity Through Time; 3.8 Set Extract: Plato, Republic 509d to 521b; 3.9 Set Extract: Aristotle, Politics Book I; 3.10 Set Extract: Rousseau, The Social Contract I.1 to 6; 3.11 The Stoics: Nature and the Problem of Evil; 3.12 Augustine: Order, Evil and Free Will; 3.13 Aquinas: Theodicy and Free Will; 3.14 Leibniz: Optimism and Determinism; 3.15 Am I Responsible for My Actions? Determinism and Free Will; 3.16 Is Human Existence Meaningful? Camus and the Absurd Hero; 3.17 Set Extract: Nagel, What Does It All Mean? ch. 6, Free Will; 3.18 Set Extract: Voltaire, Candide ch. 1 to 5; 3.19 Set Extract: Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus; 3.20 Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution; 3.21 Rationalism and Descartes; 3.22 Empiricism, Locke and Hume; 3.23 The Limits of Knowledge and Science; 3.24 Can We Think Without Language?; 3.25 Set Extract: Descartes, Meditations I and II; 3.26 Set Extract: Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding; 3.27 Set Extract: Hume, Treatise 1.1.1; 3.28 Set Extract: Searle, The Mind-Body Problem; 3.29 Naturalism versus Conventionalism; 3.30 Frege: Sense and Reference; 3.31 Wittgenstein: Meaning as Use; 3.32 Language: Innate or Learnt? Skinner, Chomsky and Sapir-Whorf; 3.33 Language and Action: Austin, Searle and Grice; 3.34 Could a Machine Think?; 3.35 Language and Democracy; 3.36 Set Extracts: Searle, What Is a Speech Act? and Grice, Logic and Conversation
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What about the set texts?

  • The Note Pack has a guide to each of the 12 set texts for Paper II (11 guides, as Searle on speech acts and Grice share one)
  • The set texts themselves are not reprinted in the books
  • All 12 are linked from kpcnotesmt.com/pages/philosophy-set-texts, and a QR code in each guide takes you straight there
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Which answers are included?

  • Logic: 6 practice papers, each solved in full, with 38 truth tables in the solutions
  • The Sophists (1): The Sophists on Truth and Morality
  • Socrates (3): Socrates and the Sophists; Socrates' Moral Optimism; The Examined Life
  • Aristotle (2): Aristotle on the Human Function; Aristotle on Virtue and the Mean
  • Epicurus (3): Aristotle and Epicurus on Happiness; Epicurus' Materialism and the Good Life; Epicurus on Death, Fear and Pleasure
  • Kant (4): Kant's Two Kinds of Imperative; Kant on the Good Will and Duty; Kant's Universalizability Test; Kant on Virtue and Happiness
  • Utilitarianism (4): Kant and Utilitarianism Compared; Utilitarianism, Act and Rule; Does the End Justify the Means?; Utilitarianism and Consequences
  • Nietzsche (3): Nietzsche and the Crisis of Morality; Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil; Nietzsche on the Will to Power and the Overman
  • Sartre and Existentialism (3): Sartre: Condemned to Be Free; Sartre on Bad Faith and Good Faith; Sartre on Freedom and the Creation of Value
  • The Internet and Ethical Values (1): Morality in Cyberspace
  • Privacy and Cyberspace (2): Privacy Online; The Newport Electronics Case
  • Reproductive Technology (3): IVF-ET: The Ethical Debate; Surrogacy and Cloning; Moral Theories and Reproductive Technology
  • Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (2): Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide; Autonomy, Mercy and Harm
  • Paper II essays: Plato's Cave, the Forms and the Line; Plato's Soul, the City and Justice; Aristotle's Metaphysics of Change; Aristotle's Political Animal; Plato and Aristotle on Knowledge; Hobbes on the State of Nature and the Sovereign; Rousseau, Optimist or Pessimist?; The Social Contract Compared; The Characteristics of Personhood; Persons Who Are Not Human?; Personal Identity Through Time; The Stoics on Nature, Virtue and Evil; Augustine and Aquinas on Evil; The Problem of Evil, Two Responses Compared; Leibniz's Optimism and Voltaire's Reply; Determinism and Responsibility; What Follows if Determinism Is True; Camus, the Absurd Hero and Meaning; Descartes' Project and the Scientific Revolution; Hume's Challenge: Science and the Self; Locke and Hume against Descartes; Rationalism and Empiricism (Leibniz and Locke); The Limits of Knowledge and Science; Science, God and the Human Mind; Can We Think Without Language?; The Cratylus and the Nature or Convention Debate; Frege on Sense, Reference and Identity; The Early and the Later Wittgenstein; The Private Language Argument; Is Language Innate? Skinner and Chomsky; Language, Culture, Innateness and Relativity; Grice, Implicature and Speech Acts; Language as Action (Austin and Searle); Could a Machine Think?; Language, Dialogue and Democracy
  • Extract answers: Plato, Republic VII (the prisoners in the cave); Plato, Republic VI and VII (the Line and the Cave); Plato, Republic VII (the return and the reluctant rulers); Aristotle, Politics I.2 (the political animal); Rousseau, Social Contract I.1 and I.3 (chains, force and right); Rousseau, Social Contract I.6 (the social pact); Nagel, Free Will (the cafeteria choice); Voltaire, Candide ch. I (Pangloss's lessons); Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (the descent); Descartes, Meditation I (the dream); Descartes, Meditation II (I am, I exist); Locke, Essay II.i (white paper); Hume, Treatise 1.1.1 (impressions and ideas); Searle, The Mind-Body Problem; Searle on Speech Acts and Grice on Conversation
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How do we know the answers are right?

  • Every truth table is worked out by a logic checker from the formula, not copied by hand
  • Each essay was written to the MATSEC syllabus, the past papers and the examiners' reports
  • Both books were then independently audited for accuracy and syllabus coverage
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  • Note Pack + Model Answers: both books, to learn the full syllabus and then practise full answers. Costs less than buying the two separately
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  • Model Answers only: the 6 logic papers and 66 essays, plus 15 extract answers
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