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 a complete lesson serving as an introduction to the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Functionalism’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Eliminative Materialism’ (and Folk Psychology), including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Philosophical Behaviourism’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Interactionist Dualism’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the issues of Dualism, including any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Property Dualism - The Knowledge/Mary argument’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Property Dualism - The Philosophical Zombie argument’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains a complete lesson on the theories of ‘Substance Dualism’, including criticisms and any relevant defences, as part of the ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ unit of AQA’s A-Level Philosophy course. Please note that, whilst this contains all relevant learning materials, this should be used in conjunction with the official textbook.
This resource contains all units for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. These resources summarise each respective argument/theory, alongside their critiques and any relevant defences. Exam questions are also included routinely.
Unit contains:
Epistemology (what is knowledge? Perception as a source of knowledge, reason as a source of knowledge and the limits of knowledge)
Moral Philosophy (Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Virtue Ethics and Meta-Ethics)
Metaphysics of God (the attributes of God, arguments for God’s existence and the Problem of Evil)
Metaphysics of the Mind (Dualism and Physicalism)
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 ‘Metaphysics of the Mind’ 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:
Hard Behaviourism
Ryle’s Dispositional Analysis (Soft Behaviourism)
Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism
Issues with Physicalism
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 ‘Metaphysics of The Mind’ 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:
Substance Dualism (Descartes and the Divisibility and Conceivability arguments)
Property Dualism (The Philosophical Zombie and Knowledge/Mary arguments)
Interactionist Dualism
Epiphenomenalist Dualism
Issues with Dualism
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 ‘Metaphysics of The Mind’ 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:
Substance Dualism
Property Dualism
Interactionist/Epiphenomenalist Dualism
Issues with Dualism
Behaviourism
Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism
Issues with Physicalism
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 ‘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 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 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 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 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.