AQA AS Philosophy (new 2014 onwards spec) Thread!

Heya I liked the questions this year however what were we supposed to do for question 3 outline descartes evil demon argument and then what he says about knowledge about the existence of his mind??(i can't remember the wording) because I thought all his arguments have an evil demon in it, also the second part of the question was that referring to the cogito? if not then I am oh so terribly screwed but thank you aqa for the lovely 15 markers let us hope a2 shall be kind as well

What did you guys put for the 9 marker in unit1 i.e. the Descartes one, I wrote my second part as clear and distinct ideas so God will not allow such demon to deceive me etc., not sure if it's right

Last year was 57 for A, do you think this year will be higher or lower? For me its definitely harder

Does anyone remember the questions (both the epistemology & philosophy of religion)? I want to double check I answered them okay but my minds gone blank to what the questions were (especially the wording) thanks

1=define tripartie view of propositional knowledge
2=explain difference between simple and complex concepts
3=outline descartes evil deceiver argument and how this relates to his knowledge of his own existence
4=outline berkely's idealism and explain how it could lead to solipsism
5=are direct realists right in claiming the immediate objects of perception are mind-indepdngent?
6=what does it mean to say god is eternal?
7=outline descartes's ontological argument
8=outline and explain wswinburne's argument from design
9=outline and explain mitchell's view of religious language and how he illustrates this with his partisan story
10=does the existence evil mean an omnipotent, omniscient, supremely god cannot exist?

Mitchell on religious language
Swinburne's design argument
Descartes' ontological argument

I thought the epistemology section was amazing, and I nearly screamed with happiness when I saw direct realism as the 15 marker.

I found the start of philosophy of religion quite easy. I love the design argument, so Swinburne was brilliant for me. But, I screwed up on Mitchell, as I didn't thoroughly revise the theory. Then with the problem of evil, I wrote everything I could think of. I didn't think it would come up, argh! Luckily, I went over it with my teacher about half an hour before the exam. I'm hoping I'll get a couple of marks for them, but I did end up talking about Aristotle in a desperate attempt to balance the arguments.

It's so annoying that I forgot to focus as much on them. But, in total I ended up using 7 pages of extra paper, so hopefully I will be credited for the rest of the paper. I'm totally praying...

I still don't get what the epistemology question was asking. Any help?
I feel like I'm being stupid- I went in there hoping for a 15 marker on perception but I really hated that one.
What even is the immediate object of perception?

Hmmm I predict:
Q5. What are the immediate objects of perception?
Q10. Does the concept of God make sense?

I thought the epistemology section was amazing, and I nearly screamed with happiness when I saw direct realism as the 15 marker.

I found the start of philosophy of religion quite easy. I love the design argument, so Swinburne was brilliant for me. But, I screwed up on Mitchell, as I didn't thoroughly revise the theory. Then with the problem of evil, I wrote everything I could think of. I didn't think it would come up, argh! Luckily, I went over it with my teacher about half an hour before the exam. I'm hoping I'll get a couple of marks for them, but I did end up talking about Aristotle in a desperate attempt to balance the arguments.

It's so annoying that I forgot to focus as much on them. But, in total I ended up using 7 pages of extra paper, so hopefully I will be credited for the rest of the paper. I'm totally praying...

you must have written absolutely loads haha

Same, I was so happy with the epistemology questions and not because they were easy, but because it didn't have the harder topics from the "Origin of knowledge" section that I was absolutely dreading. Also, 7 pages extra woow, I was terrified of redundancy so I made sure all of my answers fit in the space they gave us, but now that I think about it, my fear of redundancy probably meant i left out a lot of relevant stuff I could've added...