AQA Specification

Unit 1: Epistemology

What is knowledge?

• The tripartite view

Perception as a source of knowledge

• Direct realism

• Indirect realism

• Berkeley's Idealism

Reason as a source of knowledge

• Innatism

• The intuition and deduction thesis

The limits of knowledge

Unit 2: Moral Philosophy

Normative ethical theories

• Utilitarianism

• Kantian deontological ethics

• Aristotelian virtue ethics

Applied ethics

• stealing

• simulated killing

• eating animals

• telling lies

Meta-ethics

• Moral realism

• Moral anti-realism

Unit 3: Metaphysics of God

The concept and nature of 'God'

Arguments relating to the existence of God

• Ontological arguments

• Teleological/design arguments

• Cosmological arguments

• The Problem of Evil

Religious language

Unit 4: Metaphysics of mind

What do we mean by ‘mind’?

Dualist theories

• Substance dualism

• Property dualism

• Issues facing dualism

Physicalist theories

• Physicalism

• Mind-brain type identity theory

• Eliminative materialism

Functionalism