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Idealism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Idealism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Berkley’s Idealism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: The immediate objects of perception (ie ordinary objects such as tables, chairs, etc) are mind-dependent objects. Arguments for idealism including Berkeley’s attack on the primary/secondary quality distinction and his ‘Master’ argument. Issues including: arguments from illusion and hallucination idealism leads to solipsism problems with the role played by God in Berkeley’s Idealism (including how can Berkeley claim that our ideas exist within God’s mind given that he believes that God cannot feel pain or have sensations?)
Innatism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Innatism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Innatism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: Arguments from Plato (ie the ‘slave boy’ argument) and Gottfried Leibniz (ie his argument based on necessary truths). Empiricist responses including: Locke’s arguments against innatism the mind as a ‘tabula rasa’ (the nature of impressions and ideas, simple and complex concepts)
Indirect Realism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Indirect Realism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Indirect Realism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent objects (sense-data) that are caused by and represent mind-independent objects. John Locke’s primary/secondary quality distinction. Issues including: the argument that it leads to scepticism about the existence of mind-independent objects. Responses including: Locke’s argument from the involuntary nature of our experience the argument from the coherence of various kinds of experience, as developed by Locke and Catharine Trotter Cockburn (attrib) Bertrand Russell’s response that the external world is the ‘best hypothesis’ the argument from George Berkeley that we cannot know the nature of mind-independent objects because mind-dependent ideas cannot be like mind-independent objects.
What is Knowledge? AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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What is Knowledge? AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “What is knowledge?” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: The distinction between acquaintance knowledge, ability knowledge and propositional knowledge. The tripartite view Propositional knowledge is defined as justified true belief: S knows that p if and only if: S is justified in believing that p, p is true and S believes that p (individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions) Issues with the tripartite view including: the conditions are not individually necessary the conditions are not sufficient – cases of lucky true beliefs (including Edmund Gettier’s original two counter examples): responses: alternative post-Gettier analyses/definitions of knowledge including: strengthen the justification condition (ie infallibilism) add a ‘no false lemmas’ condition (J+T+B+N) replace ‘justified’ with ‘reliably formed’ (R+T+B) (ie reliabilism) replace ‘justified’ with an account of epistemic virtue (V+T+B).
Direct Realism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Direct Realism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Direct Realism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: The immediate objects of perception are mind-independent objects and their properties Issues including: the argument from illusion the argument from perceptual variation the argument from hallucination the time-lag argument
THE METAPHYSICS OF GOD - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle
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THE METAPHYSICS OF GOD - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all topics under the “The Metaphysics of God” section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It includes a detailled overview of the following: The concept and nature of God Ontological arguments Design arguments Cosmological arguments The problem of evil Religious language All information students will ever need for this section is contained within the documents above.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle
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MORAL PHILOSOPHY - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all topics under the “Moral Philosophy” section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It includes a detailled overview of the following: Utilitarianism Kantian deontological ethics Aristotelian virtue ethics Moral realism Moral anti-realism All information students will ever need for this section is contained within the documents above.
THE METAPHYSICS OF MIND - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle
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THE METAPHYSICS OF MIND - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all topics under the “The Metaphysics of Mind” section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It includes a detailled overview of the following: Substance dualism Property dualism Issues facing dualism Physical behaviourism Mind-brain type identity theory Eliminative materialism Functionalism All information students will ever need for this section is contained within the documents above.
EPISTEMOLOGY - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle
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EPISTEMOLOGY - AQA A-Level Philosophy Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all topics under the “Epistemology” section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It includes a detailled overview of the following: What is knowledge? Direct realism Indirect realism Berkley’s idealism Innatism The intuition & deduction thesis Scepticism (the limits of knowlege) All information students will ever need for this section is contained within the documents above.