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 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 ‘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 ‘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 ‘Justified True Belief’ as part of the Epistemology 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 Issues with JTB’ (Gettier and Fake Barn Cases) as part of the Epistemology 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 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 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 ‘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 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
Please note: any additional materials or images/videos use herewithin are not mine and I claim no ownership of them. Please use the URL to direct you to 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 the first section of Epistemology (‘what is 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:
An introduction to philosophy at A-Level
Definitions of knowledge (and Zagzebski’s pitfalls)
Plato and Justified True Belief
Issues with Justified True Belief (Gettier and Fake Barn Cases)
Defences for Justified True Belief (Infallibilism, ‘no false lemmas’, Reliabilism and Epistemic Virtue)
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 third section of ‘Epistemology’ (Reason as a source 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:
Innatism and its issues
Tabula Rasa and its issues
Rationalism vs Empiricism (The Intuition and Deduction Thesis and Hume’s Fork)
The Cogito (what is it?)
Descartes’ proof of God (The Trademark Argument, The Contingency Argument and Descartes’ Ontological Argument)
Descartes’ proof of the external world
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 second section of ‘Epistemology’ (perception as a source 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:
Realism
Direct Realism and its issues (perceptual variation, illusion, hallucination and time-lag)
Indirect Realism and its issues (scepticism about mind-independent objects)
Berkeley’s Idealism and its issues
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.
A complete collection of resources needed for studying Deontological Kantian Ethics for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. This contains all relevant theories, criticisms and and defences. Whilst questions and activities are provided, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook for additional activities.
Resource includes:
The Categorical Imperative
The Universal Law Formulation
The Humanity Formulation
Strengths and issues
Application to the eight suggested scenarios
Please note: any additional resources or images/videos contained herewithin are not mine and I claim no ownership of these. Please refer to the URL for direction to the original designer/creator.
This resources contains all materials needed for Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, as part of the ‘Moral Philosophy’ section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. All theories, criticisms and defences are included, alongside relevant exam practice and questions to probe student understanding. For additional activities, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resources includes:
Function of the soul
Moral responsibility
Virtue and vice
Doctrine of the Mean
The role of practical wisdom/reasoning
Eudaimonia
Strengths and issues
Application to the eight suggested scenarios
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A complete unit of work for Utilitarianism, as part of Moral Philosophy in the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. This resources contains summaries of all major theories, alongside criticisms and any defences. Questions and activities to probe for deeper learning are included, but please use this resources alongside the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resource contains:
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Two-Tier Utilitarianism
Psychological Hedonism
Strengths/issues of Utilitarianism
Application of Utilitarianism to the eight suggested scenarios
Note: any additional materials/images or videos used herewithin are not mine and I claim no ownership of them. Please refer to the URL for direction to 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.