3.1 Epistemology AQA A Level Philosophy full course revision notes

These detailed course / revision notes were specially written to give AQA A Level Philosophy students a comprehensive understanding of the key knowledge from the specification for unit 3.1 Epistemology:

What is knowledge?
- The tripartite view
Perception as a source of knowledge
- Direct realism
- Indirect realism
- Berkeley’s Idealism
Reason as a source of knowledge
- Innatism
- The intuition and deduction thesis
The limits of knowledge

These extensive notes are especially useful for students whose note-taking in lesson isn’t as good as others, or whose organisational skills mean they are missing notes/handouts on certain topics / areas. These notes will certainly help reduce the time it takes them to catch up with their peers, and also students like to use these as a checklist of topics to go into in further detail. They give peace of mind that every corner of the specification/syllabus has been covered.

These notes can be given to students to work through at their own pace, or split up and given to students as and when each part of the content is studied throughout the course. As the teacher you may find it useful to go through the notes with my students as they highlight and annotate them with anything extra you want to give them according to their level. These notes though are comprehensive and detailed and work just as well as a stand alone revision aid as they do an in-class resource.

Hopefully these notes help to save your students (and you!) some time in the hectic run up to exams. Thanks for taking a look :)