TASC Philosophy Level 3 study plan

Build a dated timeline of major periods from pre-Socratic thought through Hellenistic schools, placing at least twenty thinkers on it

Summarize in your own words the core positions of Plato and Aristotle on form, change, and knowledge, writing one paragraph each

Distinguish the central questions of medieval scholasticism from those of ancient philosophy in a short comparison table

Define ten key terms from ancient and medieval philosophy in a personal glossary with one example each

Trace the shift from rationalism to empiricism by contrasting at least three paired thinkers on the source of knowledge

Explain Kant's Copernican turn in plain language and state what problem it was meant to solve

Outline three major nineteenth-century movements and the historical pressures each responded to

Identify five recurring philosophical problems and note how two different eras framed each one

Contrast physicalist, dualist, and idealist accounts of mind using one standard objection against each

Distinguish the main positions on personal identity over time and test each against a written thought experiment

Map the debate between free will and determinism, labeling compatibilist and incompatibilist responses

Differentiate the main theories of truth and give one counterexample to each

Explain the justified-true-belief account of knowledge and reconstruct Gettier-style counterexamples in your own words

Compare foundationalism, coherentism, and reliabilism as responses to the regress of justification

State the problem of induction and evaluate two proposed solutions to it

Assess how skepticism challenges each theory of justification you have studied

Distinguish consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-ethical frameworks by applying each to the same moral dilemma

Reconstruct and evaluate Kant's categorical imperative and the utilitarian greatest-happiness principle, naming one objection to each

Explain metaethical positions on moral realism and moral language, with one example claim for each

Apply a structured decision procedure to two applied ethics cases and justify your conclusion

Translate at least ten ordinary-language arguments into premise-conclusion form and label each as deductive or inductive

Test fifteen short arguments for validity and identify any formal fallacies by name

Distinguish validity from soundness and explain why an argument can be valid but unsound

Review your history timeline and connect three historical arguments to the logical forms they use

Compare social contract, utilitarian, and libertarian justifications of political authority, naming one weakness of each

Explain two accounts of justice and apply them to a distribution question

Summarize three positions on the nature of art and aesthetic judgment, with one objection to each

Contrast at least three arguments for and against the existence of God and identify the standard reply to each

Assemble a cumulative review sheet of the twenty most frequently confused distinctions across all domains

Complete two full-length timed practice sets and log errors by domain and error type

Re-teach your three weakest topics aloud or in writing without notes

Drill missed items until each is answered correctly twice in a row