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Philosophy · AQA 7172 · Paper 2 · June 2022

AQA A Level Philosophy Paper 2 June 2022 question paper

AQA 7172 · Paper 2

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Question 1

State the definitions of ‘God’ used by (a) Anselm and (b) Descartes in their ontological arguments.

[3 marks]

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Question 2

Explain the design argument from analogy as presented by Hume.

[5 marks]

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Question 3

Explain how Russell objects to the cosmological argument by arguing that it commits the fallacy of composition.

[5 marks]

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Question 4

Explain Flew’s view on religious language and explain how Hare responds to this using the notion of a ‘blik’.

[12 marks]

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Question 5

Does the existence of evil disprove the existence of God?

[25 marks]

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Question 6

What is a philosophical zombie?

[3 marks]

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Question 7

Explain the ‘inverted qualia’ objection to functionalism.

[5 marks]

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Question 8

Explain why the asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people’s mental states is problematic for philosophical behaviourism.

[5 marks]

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Question 9

Explain the ‘knowledge/Mary’ argument (for property dualism) and the response that Mary gains acquaintance knowledge rather than propositional knowledge.

[12 marks]

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Question 10

To what extent is eliminative materialism correct?

[25 marks]

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