Epistemology - Reason as knowledge

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.

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