Happy New Year AQA Philosophers!

You may be preparing for your mocks right now. Where you are year 12 or 13, there are some questions to try:

Paper 1

Epistemology

What is a false lemma? [3]

Explain the time lag argument against direct realism. [5]

Outline the Cogito as an a priori intuition. [5]

Outline philosophical scepticism and the empiricist responses from Berkeley. [12]

Can reason alone provide substantive knowledge? [25]

Ethics
What is a categorical imperative? [3]

Explain why utilitarianism has an issue with partiality. [5]

Explain Philippa Foot’s objection that morality is not a system of categorical imperatives. [5]

Explain how a preference utilitarian might morally judge the eating of meat. [12]

Is it possible to derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’?  [25]

Paper 2

Metaphysics of God

What is revealed theology? [3]

Briefly outline the evidential problem of evil. [5]

Explain why Kant objects to the design argument. [5]

Explain God’s omniscience and the criticism that our free will undermines it. [12]

‘Talk of God is meaningless.’ Critically discuss this claim. [25]

Metaphysics of Mind
What do eliminative materialists claim about mental states? [3]

Explain the view that Hard Behaviourism cannot satisfactorily define mental states due to the issue of the distinctness of mental states from behaviour. [5]

Outline the knowledge/Mary argument for property dualism. [5[

Outline functionalism and explain how the argument from inverted qualia can be used as a criticism of the theory. [12]

Evaluate the theory of property dualism. [25]

Good luck! Let me know if you need any help marking them.