I am an experienced teacher/tutor of History/Classics and RS/Philosophy offering detailed and extensive lessons and resources for teachers of these subjects.
I am an experienced teacher/tutor of History/Classics and RS/Philosophy offering detailed and extensive lessons and resources for teachers of these subjects.
This resource contains all lessons for the last section of ���Epistemology’ (the limitations of knowledge) under AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Relevant for either the AS or A-Level, these resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
Philosophical scepticism (local scepticism and global scepticism)
Cartesian scepticism and its issues (The Cartesian Circle)
Responses to scepticism
Whilst this contains all relevant theoretical materials, and poses questions to probe understanding, please use the approved AQA textbook for relevant activities.
Note: any extra materials/resources or videos used herewithin are not owned by me, and I take no credit for these. Please refer to their URL links for the original designer/creator.
This resource contains all relevant materials for the ‘Meta-Ethics’ section of Moral Philosophy for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. All theories, criticisms and defences are included alongside exam materials and questions to probe students for deeper thinking. For further activities, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resource includes:
Moral Realism
Naturalism
Innatism
Moral Anti-Realism
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
Cognitivism and non-Cognitivism
Strengths and issues of these
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This resource contains all lessons for ‘Metaphysics of God’ under AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Relevant for either the AS or A-Level, these resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
Attributes of God (and issues with these)
Ontological Arguments (Anselm, Descartes and Malcolm)
Issues with Ontological Arguments
Teleological Arguments (Aquinas, Hume, Paley and Swinburne)
Issues with Teleological Arguments
Cosmological Arguments (Al-Ghazali, Aquinas, Descartes and Leibniz)
Issues with Cosmological Arguments
Religious Language (Ayer, Hick, Flew, Mitchell, Hare and Wittgenstein)
Whilst this contains all relevant theoretical materials, and poses questions to probe understanding, please use the approved AQA textbook for relevant activities.
Note: any extra materials/resources or videos used herewithin are not owned by me, and I take no credit for these. Please refer to their URL links for the original designer/creator.
This resource contains all lessons for ‘Religious Language’ as part of under AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Relevant for the A-Level, these resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
Ayer’s Verification Principle
Hick and Eschatological Verification (and The Celestial City)
The University Debate (Flew, Mitchell and Hare - and each of their parables)
Wittgenstein’s ‘Language Games’
How these relate to the possibility of religious language being meaningful/meaningless
Whilst this contains all relevant theoretical materials, and poses questions to probe understanding, please use the approved AQA textbook for relevant activities.
Note: any extra materials/resources or videos used herewithin are not owned by me, and I take no credit for these. Please refer to their URL links for the original designer/creator.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘Anselm’s Ontological Argument’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘Malcolm’s Ontological Argument’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘Descartes’ Ontological Argument’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘Teleological Arguments’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains all lessons for ‘the Attributes of God’ under the ‘Metaphysics of God’ unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Relevant for the A-Level course, these resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
God as omnipotent and the issues with this (The Paradox of the Stone and The Euthyphro Dilemma)
God as omniscient (and immutable) and issues with this (free will)
God as omnibenevolent (the perfect and moral views) and issues with this (the problem of evil)
God as Eternal and Everlasting
Whilst this contains all relevant theoretical materials, and poses questions to probe understanding, please use the approved AQA textbook for relevant activities.
Note: any extra materials/resources or videos used herewithin are not owned by me, and I take no credit for these. Please refer to their URL links for the original designer/creator.
This resource contains all lessons for ‘arguments for God’s existence’ (and the Problem of Evil) as part of the ‘Metaphysics of God’ unit under AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Relevant for either the A-Level, these resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
Ontological Arguments for God’s existence (Anselm, Descartes and Malcolm)
Issues with the ontological arguments (Gaunilo, Aquinas, Hick and Empiricist criticisms)
Teleological Arguments for God’s existence (Aquinas, Hume, Paley and Swinburne)
Issues with the teleological arguments (Hume’s critiques and evolution)
Cosmological Arguments for God’s existence (Al-Ghazali, Aquinas, Descartes and Leibniz)
Issues with the cosmological arguments (contradiction, the Cartesian Circle, the possibility of an infinite series, the fallacy of composition and why stop at God?)
The problem of evil and responses to this
Whilst this contains all relevant theoretical materials, and poses questions to probe understanding, please use the approved AQA textbook for relevant activities.
Note: any extra materials/resources or videos used herewithin are not owned by me, and I take no credit for these. Please refer to their URL links for the original designer/creator.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘issues with Teleological Arguments’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘Cosmological Arguments’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘The Problem of Evil’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘issues with Cosmological Arguments’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘responses to the Problem of Evil’ as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘religious language’ (Ayer’s Verification Principle and Hick’s Eschatological Verification) as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on ‘The University Debate’ (Flew, Mitchell and Hare - as well as Wittgenstein’s ‘Language Games’) as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This lesson serves as an introduction to the ‘Moral Philosophy’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Included are all relevant theories and activities, with a particular emphasis on discussion and higher-order questioning. Please use this in conjunction with the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This lesson, on Act Utilitarianism, contains all theories and ideas relevant for the this theory as part of the ‘Moral Philosophy’ section of AQA’s ‘A-Level Philosophy’ course. There is a particular emphasis on debate/oracy and higher-order questioning, but for further activities please use in conjunction with the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson as an introduction to Metaphysics as part of the Metaphysics of God unit for AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. The lesson focuses on theory and skills on debate/oracy as well as higher-order thinking. For further activities and guidance, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.