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Philosophy

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Philosophy tutor

Pioneered by Stanford AI researchers and learning scientists, Aristotle is the world's first voice-based AI tutor. A full Philosophy course, mapped skill by skill.

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Fits your child's Philosophy class

Mapped skill by skill

Every skill mapped

Philosophy on Aristotle is 71 skills across 9 units, each linked to the skills it builds on.

Your class or your curiosity

Share a syllabus, textbook, or reading list and sessions follow it, or let Aristotle lead the way through the course.

Your child's pace

Aristotle moves on when a skill is mastered and slows down when it isn't, so no time goes to what your child already knows.

Features

All the tools of a great tutor.

Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.

Learn out loud

Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.

An interactive whiteboard

Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.

Practice built for you

Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.

65 subjects and counting

From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.

Review with ease

Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.

Upload your own materials

Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!

Personalized tracking

We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.

A tutor that knows you

Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.

The curriculum

71 Philosophy skills, personalized to your child

Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.

Sample curriculum

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Learning to Ask and Argue

What Makes a Life Go Well?

What Can We Know?

Reality, Mind, and Personal Identity

Freedom, Responsibility, and Meaning

How Should We Act?

Justice, Power, and Living Together

God, Science, Language, and Art

Building Your Own Position

Philosophy tutoring curriculum71 skills across 9 units

Learning to Ask and Argue

Turn a puzzling question into an argument another person can examine. Topics: Socrates: The Examined Life, Reasons, Objections, and Replies.

What Makes a Life Go Well?

Compare ancient accounts of virtue, pleasure, discipline, and relationships. Topics: Aristotle: Flourishing and Character, Epicurus and the Stoics, Confucius, Mencius, and Zhuangzi, Mozi: Impartial Concern.

What Can We Know?

Follow doubts about perception, justification, and testimony through concrete arguments. Topics: Descartes: Doubt and Certainty, Hume: Experience, Causation, and Induction, Knowledge, Luck, and Other People, Nyaya: Sources of Knowledge.

Reality, Mind, and Personal Identity

Test accounts of what exists and what makes someone the same person over time. Topics: Plato and Kant: Appearance and Understanding, Descartes, Physicalism, and Consciousness, Locke, Buddhist No-Self, and Continuity.

Freedom, Responsibility, and Meaning

Examine the relationship between causes, choices, accountability, and a finite life. Topics: Determinism and Free Will, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, and Mortality.

How Should We Act?

Compare moral theories by applying them to the same difficult cases. Topics: Bentham, Mill, and Utilitarianism, Kant: Duty and Respect, Care, Character, and Moral Disagreement.

Justice, Power, and Living Together

Read political philosophy as arguments about institutions and the people they govern. Topics: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick, Marx, Beauvoir, and Fanon.

God, Science, Language, and Art

Use philosophical tools on questions that connect several fields. Topics: Arguments About God, Popper, Kuhn, and Wittgenstein, Beauty and Interpretation.

Building Your Own Position

Develop an answer that survives serious engagement with alternatives. Topics: The Short Philosophy Paper.

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Common questions about online Philosophy tutoring

A few things you might wonder before getting started.

What does Aristotle's Philosophy course cover?

Aristotle's Philosophy course tracks 71 skills across 9 units, including Learning to Ask and Argue, What Makes a Life Go Well?, and What Can We Know?. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of Philosophy your child has mastered and what to teach next.

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