AQA A Level Philosophy Paper 1 November 2020 question paper

What does Descartes mean by ‘clear and distinct ideas’?

Explain why there might be a problem with the role played by God in Berkeley’s idealism.

Explain the view that belief is not a necessary condition for knowledge.

Outline philosophical scepticism and explain how reliabilism responds to it.

How convincing is direct realism?

Outline Ayer’s verification principle.

Explain Kant’s first formulation of the categorical imperative.

Explain Moore’s ‘open question argument’.

Explain Bentham’s utilitarianism and explain how Nozick’s experience machine challenges this view.

How convincing is Aristotelian virtue ethics?