Below are links to two GPTs created using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. They have been designed for specific tasks. Each one has been given a detailed set of instructions to govern how they respond to prompts from users. The GPTs responses are drawn primarily from uploaded notes. These notes amount to tens of thousands of words and provide the GPTs with reliable, accurate information, increasing their reliability.
You can use the bots to access information about A-level philosophy and critical thinking skills. What sets the GPTs apart from usual methods of learning and revising is their ability to test you and give feedback.
All you need to access the bots is a free ChatGPT account.
Philosophy Bot
Enhance your philosophy skills with a GPT designed specifically to help you excel at A-level. Trained on clear and precise notes, it supports students aiming for top marks in their exams.
Ask Philosophy Bot to test you with exam-style questions. After you submit your response, the GPT will analyse it based on the source materials provided and give you tailored feedback, suggesting ways to improve your answer according to A-level Philosophy standards.
Reading books, notes, and textbooks, and listening to teachers, lectures, and podcasts are crucial first steps in mastering any subject. However, deep learning comes from repeated practice and targeted feedback. Philosophy Bot is an essential resource to ensure that you not only understand the key concepts and arguments in the A-level syllabus but can also explain them with clarity, precision, and depth.
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Contra
Sharpen your critical thinking and reasoning skills with Contra, a GPT designed to test, challenge, and strengthen your arguments.
How reliable are your beliefs? How confident are you in their truth?
Put them to the test with Contra, a GPT specifically trained to challenge your beliefs. Present something you believe, and see if your belief can hold up against ContraBot’s scepticism.
In the 17th century, René Descartes sought to ensure his beliefs were reliable and justified. To do so, he subjected them to the most radical test he could conceive of: absolute doubt. This method—known as Cartesian doubt—was his way of testing his beliefs. If a belief could withstand the test of doubt, Descartes considered it trustworthy.
In the 18th century, David Hume continued to question knowledge of the nature of things. He argued that when it came to the world around us, we can be certain of nothing. What we think of as undoubtable fact is often little more than custom and habits of thinking.
You may find it frustrating to discover strong counterarguments to your beliefs. You may disagree with ContraBot’s objections endless objections. Or you may find that when it comes to life’s most important matters, certainty is impossible. Either way, the best we can do is proportion our beliefs to the available evidence and recognize that even those we strongly disagree with have reasons and evidence of their own.
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