{"id":911,"date":"2007-05-14T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2007\/05\/14\/starting-out-as-a-philosopher-and-a-levels"},"modified":"2007-05-14T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T13:50:00","slug":"starting-out-as-a-philosopher-and-a-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2007\/05\/14\/starting-out-as-a-philosopher-and-a-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Out as a Philosopher (and A-levels)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people (in the UK) find their first taste of studying philosophy to be the AS \/A2 Religious Studies courses &#8211; most notably the Philosophy &amp; Ethics A Level options&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be an interesting post for this site to ask the readers of the blog (many of our students did these qualifications) to tell us about their experiences &#8211; and others, how did you encounter philosophy? To summarise &#8211; we would love to hear:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tips \/ Advice for AS\/A2 Philosophy &amp; Ethics students<\/li>\n<li>Anecdotes about your studies at A-Level (16-18yrs old &#8211; for readers abroad!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>How did (for all blog readers) you first encounter philosophy as a subject &#8211; and what did you make of it?<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And a question for students: <span style=\"font-size:130%\"><strong>Why are you studying philosophy? How did it happen?<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people (in the UK) find their first taste of studying philosophy to be the AS \/A2 Religious Studies courses &#8211; most notably the Philosophy &amp; Ethics A Level options&#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,52,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-level-religious-studies","category-ethics","category-philosophy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}