[Rhee_x]

(Original post by angel_xx)
Yeah, there is also an exemplar answer for one of the Moral Philosophy questions from June 2011 which got 42 marks. I'll type that one up when I get the chance and post it on here

There's also an exemplar answer (for both Moral & Political Philosophy) which scored really low (around 20 marks). Probably not much help, I guess it could just help you to see what you shouldn't be doing in the exam. But if anyone wants me to type those up too then feel free to ask

Hey would you be able to type up the low scoring moral answer, only if that's not too much trouble please? I think knowing not what to do will be really helpful Only if it's okay though

(Original post by Camilla321)
Also can anyone please help me work out my ums marks... I really really want to get a B
I got 72/90 Unit One
63/90 marks Unit Two

Obviously being the higher mark paper I really wanna do better on unit three but I really don't know what the minimum mark I should get is?! Also minimum mark for unit four would be sososos helpfulll

You have 135 UMS at the moment and need 280 Ums for B
That means you need to get 145 Ums this year (out of 200) across the two exams
So If you were to get 85/120 Ums on Unit 3, you would need 60 Ums/80 ums on Unit 4
Hope that helped

[roseleanorlaw]

I don't know any of the things you guys know here.

Your notes make no sense to me, I haven't been taught most of the things in there.. I'm doing Moral and Mind, and basically have an outline of each position and nothing else. I don't have any objecions or further details. I'm on a C (after failing Phil2 with an E twice, even though I used every single piece of knowledge I had in the exam) so I need to do well to actually get a decent grade.

Basically, I have no hope and I want to cry. haha

[ke95]

Hi, please could someone write me a brief list of the main scholars who are atheists, theists and agnostics please? Would be sooo helpful! Thank you!!

[Camilla321]

(Original post by Rhee_x)
Hey would you be able to type up the low scoring moral answer, only if that's not too much trouble please? I think knowing not what to do will be really helpful Only if it's okay though



You have 135 UMS at the moment and need 280 Ums for B
That means you need to get 145 Ums this year (out of 200) across the two exams
So If you were to get 85/120 Ums on Unit 3, you would need 60 Ums/80 ums on Unit 4
Hope that helped

Ahhh your brilliant thank you!! The whole ums thing does baffle me though... Like how many ums is equal to one mark and all that?!

[miriamstewart]

For anyone doing PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION as part of unit 3. HELP?!

I'm really struggling to figure out how reason & faith, religious language and social science fit together. Would I refer to more than one when writing an essay? What type of essay might I expect on them?

I am confused, I think I'm overcomplicating! But would the question regard cognitive and non cognitive states, in which you would say faith is a belief in something existential (cognitive) whilst others say it is a way of life / rel lang (non cognitive)

CLEARLY I AM BAFFLED!!

Any help would me greatly appreciated.

[Rhee_x]

(Original post by Camilla321)
Ahhh your brilliant thank you!! The whole ums thing does baffle me though... Like how many ums is equal to one mark and all that?!

No, your raw mark is coverted into UMS. So say you got 77 out of 100 in the Unit 3 exam, this would be an A and covert to say 105 ums/ 120 Ums, if that makes sense?

It's not equivalent to one mark or so. Its equivalent to grades, so for example 160/200 is an A, 140 is a B, 120 is a C etc; And this doesn't change year by year. However, the raw marks needed to get these UMS do change.

[Camilla321]

(Original post by Rhee_x)
Hey would you be able to type up the low scoring moral answer, only if that's not too much trouble please? I think knowing not what to do will be really helpful Only if it's okay though



You have 135 UMS at the moment and need 280 Ums for B
That means you need to get 145 Ums this year (out of 200) across the two exams
So If you were to get 85/120 Ums on Unit 3, you would need 60 Ums/80 ums on Unit 4
Hope that helped

NO WORRIES I discovered the ums converter and got the rough estimates for the raw mark, thank you! and good luck!

[Camilla321]

(Original post by Rhee_x)
No, your raw mark is coverted into UMS. So say you got 77 out of 100 in the Unit 3 exam, this would be an A and covert to say 105 ums/ 120 Ums, if that makes sense?

It's not equivalent to one mark or so. Its equivalent to grades, so for example 160/200 is an A, 140 is a B, 120 is a C etc; And this doesn't change year by year. However, the raw marks needed to get these UMS do change.

Ohhhhhh I see thank you!

[DemolitionLovers]

I am ridiculously worried for these 2 exams but I got 83 UMS on PHIL2 and 97 UMS on PHIL1 after a resit this January so only need 1 UMS into a B to get an A overall. I'm doing Mind, Political and Mill.

(Original post by roseleanorlaw)
I don't know any of the things you guys know here.

Your notes make no sense to me, I haven't been taught most of the things in there.. I'm doing Moral and Mind, and basically have an outline of each position and nothing else. I don't have any objecions or further details. I'm on a C (after failing Phil2 with an E twice, even though I used every single piece of knowledge I had in the exam) so I need to do well to actually get a decent grade.

Basically, I have no hope and I want to cry. haha

Hi, I have 3 large booklets on Philosophy of Mind that cover everything if you PM me your email address or something? They're my teacher's though so you'd have to not give them to anyone else.

[Banoobie]

(Original post by Munny_d)
Moral and political for Unit 3
Nietzsche for Unit 4...

My philosophy teacher really over complicated metaethics..
Also need to make a start on Nietzsche.. any notes on this lunatic would be greatly appreciated

Hey, don't know if you've already had a reply about this (or this is a really obvious answer) but Lacewing has lots of really useful essays and stuff about Nietzsche

http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/ph...sources-a2.asp

just scroll all the way down

[Banoobie]

I'm doing moral and mind, I haven't started revising mind yet but I'm not too worried, for anyone else who likes to cram I can give you the secrets (my approach anyways)

Basically you just need to go into the exam having a clear idea of what you're going to write before. learn one argument really well and how it is better than all the others, learn some good counters so you seem really detailed in your response.

For example, the central question (which is BOUND to come up in some form) in philosophy of mind is whether the mind is monist or dualist right? So learn one side of the debate really well, why it makes more sense than the other and write it in the exam.

Learn your general argument well and you can tailor a brilliant answer to any question, simples

[JustCharley]

(Original post by Banoobie)
I'm doing moral and mind, I haven't started revising mind yet but I'm not too worried, for anyone else who likes to cram I can give you the secrets (my approach anyways)

Basically you just need to go into the exam having a clear idea of what you're going to write before. learn one argument really well and how it is better than all the others, learn some good counters so you seem really detailed in your response.

For example, the central question (which is BOUND to come up in some form) in philosophy of mind is whether the mind is monist or dualist right? So learn one side of the debate really well, why it makes more sense than the other and write it in the exam.

Learn your general argument well and you can tailor a brilliant answer to any question, simples

I'm with you on the cramming front. I'm also doing mind. I take the approach to always argue for property dualism. Argue that the dualists cannot account for mind/brain causation and that reductive theories miss out the crucial qualiative properties of the mental. Fingers crossed we get a really good straight forward assess substance dualism or assess identity theory!

[danadd9]

Moral and Political for Unit 3 with Animal ethics as my applied ethics thing, and J.S. Mill for Unit 4.
If no one's mentioned Routledge as a good revision source then...yeah, go use Routledge.

[Banoobie]

(Original post by JustCharley)
I'm with you on the cramming front. I'm also doing mind. I take the approach to always argue for property dualism. Argue that the dualists cannot account for mind/brain causation and that reductive theories miss out the crucial qualiative properties of the mental. Fingers crossed we get a really good straight forward assess substance dualism or assess identity theory!

Ah sounds good man, if in doubt I always argue on the side of science because it makes actual sense to me whereas every other theory seems to just be making it up, so Biological Naturalism all the way! Even if the question is something horrific you can always twist it to fit your argument somehow, I think it'll be fine but i am hoping for good questions because if you change it too much its obvious you haven't prepared :P

[bananaterracottapie]

(Original post by DemolitionLovers)
I am ridiculously worried for these 2 exams but I got 83 UMS on PHIL2 and 97 UMS on PHIL1 after a resit this January so only need 1 UMS into a B to get an A overall. I'm doing Mind, Political and Mill.




Hi, I have 3 large booklets on Philosophy of Mind that cover everything if you PM me your email address or something? They're my teacher's though so you'd have to not give them to anyone else.

hello demolitionlovers, i don't want to be naughty but could you send them to me as well ?

[JustCharley]

(Original post by Banoobie)
Ah sounds good man, if in doubt I always argue on the side of science because it makes actual sense to me whereas every other theory seems to just be making it up, so Biological Naturalism all the way! Even if the question is something horrific you can always twist it to fit your argument somehow, I think it'll be fine but i am hoping for good questions because if you change it too much its obvious you haven't prepared :P

But I would argue that Searle's biological naturalism is just property dualism in disguise .... I have an essay on it if you would like to read it

[Banoobie]

(Original post by JustCharley)
But I would argue that Searle's biological naturalism is just property dualism in disguise .... I have an essay on it if you would like to read it

But not if you take the Physicalist approach and say it is non-reductive! I dont think Searle has all the answers really, just the most defensible position and you can simply appeal to ignorance anyway and say the mind is too complex to understand with the current technology but if there was some non-physical substance that makes up the mind then Physics would surely know about it.

Sure I would be happy to read it what's the other topic you're doing?

[rlwat]

What do people predict will come up for religion? I doubt miracles will, as it has 2 years in a row. I'm thinking religious experience and/or faith and reason look the most probable?


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[Munny_d]

(Original post by Banoobie)
Hey, don't know if you've already had a reply about this (or this is a really obvious answer) but Lacewing has lots of really useful essays and stuff about Nietzsche

http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/ph...sources-a2.asp

just scroll all the way down

Haha yeah I've got those sheets of Lacewing. But thank you anyway! Are you also doing Nietzche?

[JustCharley]

(Original post by Banoobie)
But not if you take the Physicalist approach and say it is non-reductive! I dont think Searle has all the answers really, just the most defensible position and you can simply appeal to ignorance anyway and say the mind is too complex to understand with the current technology but if there was some non-physical substance that makes up the mind then Physics would surely know about it.

Sure I would be happy to read it what's the other topic you're doing?

Yeah, I found philosophy of mind really hard so I actually think it's all too mysterious and we just can't work it out right now Pretty sure McGuinn was the one who said we don't know, and we probably won't know for a while. I know Nagel was open to possibility of science developing some sort of theory that could explain in the future. If you haven't read Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" article then you should I think you'd enjoy it.

My essay got 42/50, hope you find it useful.

My other topic is political. I feel MUCH more comfortable writing political essays