Course Content – AQA Syllabus (7172)
Unit 1 – Epistemology
- What is knowledge?
- The Tripartite View
- Perception as a source of knowledge
- Reason as a source of knowledge
- Indirect realism
- Berkeley’s idealism
- Innatism
- Intuition and deduction thesis
- Descartes’ Theory of Ideas
- The limits of knowledge
Unit 2 – Moral philosophy
- The nature and concept of God
- Arguments relating to the existence of God
- Teleological / Design arguments
- Cosmological arguments and criticisms
- The problem of ‘evil’
- Religious language
Unit 3 – Metaphysics of God
- The nature and concept of God
- Arguments relating to the existence of God
- Teleological / Design arguments
- Cosmological arguments and criticisms
- The problem of ‘evil’
- Religious language
Unit 4 – Metaphysics of Mind
- What do we mean by ‘mind’?
- Dualist theories
- Physicalist theories
- Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory
- Eliminative materialism
- Functionalism
Unit 5 – Exam Preparation
- Practice Paper 1
- Practice Paper 2
