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Philosophy · AQA 7172 · Paper 2 · June 2024

AQA A Level Philosophy Paper 2 June 2024 question paper

AQA 7172 · Paper 2

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Question 1

What does it mean to say that God is (a) ‘omniscient’ and (b) ‘omnipotent’?

[3 marks]

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Question 2

Explain Descartes’ version of the cosmological argument based on his continuing existence.

[5 marks]

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Question 3

Explain how an empiricist might object to the ontological argument as an a priori proof for God’s existence.

[5 marks]

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Question 4

Explain the design argument as presented by Hume and his objection that it fails as it is an argument from a unique case.

[12 marks]

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Question 5

Can we talk meaningfully about God?

[25 marks]

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Question 6

What do functionalists mean when they claim that mental states can be multiply realised?

[3 marks]

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Question 7

Explain Descartes’ conceivability argument for substance dualism.

[5 marks]

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Question 8

Explain why the good predictive and explanatory power of folk-psychology is an issue for eliminative materialism.

[5 marks]

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Question 9

Explain interactionist dualism and the empirical interaction problem facing it.

[12 marks]

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Question 10

Is philosophical behaviourism correct?

[25 marks]

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