AQA A Level Philosophy Paper 2 June 2025 question paper

State the difference between God being everlasting and God being eternal.

Explain Aquinas’ Second Way (his argument from atemporal causation).

Explain Basil Mitchell’s view about religious language using his ‘Partisan’ story.

Explain the evidential problem of evil and explain how Hick responds using the idea of soul-making.

Is the teleological/design argument for the existence of God persuasive?

State what mind-brain type identity theory claims about mental states.

Explain one similarity and one difference between interactionist dualism and epiphenomenalist dualism.

Explain Ryle’s ‘soft’ philosophical behaviourism.

Explain eliminative materialism and explain how it can be argued that it is self-refuting as a theory.

Are functionalists right to claim that all mental states can be characterised in terms of functional roles?