AQA A Level Philosophy Paper 1 November 2021 question paper

What is the difference between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge?

Explain the view that the mind is a ‘tabula rasa’ at birth.

Explain Descartes’ third ‘wave of doubt’.

Explain how an account of epistemic virtue can be used to show why Smith lacks knowledge in one of Gettier’s original counter-examples.

Is Berkeley’s idealist account of perception convincing?

What is the difference between cognitivism and non-cognitivism about ethical language?

Explain why utilitarianism has an issue with partiality.

Explain what Mackie’s error theory claims.

Explain Aristotle’s view on how we develop moral character and how this is challenged by the issue of circularity in his definition of ‘virtuous acts’.

To what extent can Kantian deontological ethics be defended?