A-level Philosophy Study Group 2022

😭😭😭🥴 is my entire reaction to this exam

same

Hardest questions came up which should lower the grade boundaries.

Me too, it went so badly. On the moral anti realism question, if I gave four uses of moral language, but they weren’t the reasons given in the textbook, do you think that would be ok? I said moral language was used for expressing emotions, instructing/commanding, influencing, and disagreeing/agreeing/debating. The textbook says moral reasoning (which I merged with agreeing/disagreeing/debating), expressing emotion and approval/disapproval (not in the textbook) and then I got the other issues right. Am I going to drop marks over that?

Also - said that because error theory is non cognitive the problem of moral language doesn’t apply. Is that correct?

I’m going to give myself a day to wallow in self pity to get all the disappointment and sadness out and then get on with revising for other subjects - that’s why I’m asking these questions even though the exam is over

error theory is cognitive - thats the error. its emotivism and prescriptivism that are non cog.

any predictions for paper 2 essay questions?

1- cosmological arguments and 2- property dualism

any predictions for paper 2 essay questions?

1- cosmological arguments and 2- property dualism

do you remember all the questions?

I'm thinking paper 2 might be eliminative materialism :X or at least I hope it's that over property dualism.

philosophy paper 1 2022
epistomology
3- difference (as in define these things) between necessary and contingent truths
5- reliabilist account on knowledge
5- hallucinations as an issue for DR (direct realism)
12- IR (indirect realism) and Berkeley's objection to it
25- Is Descartes' rational intuition and deduction thesis successful?

moral philosophy
3- kant's definition of hypothetical imperatives
5- aristotle's skills analogy
5- (can't remember even though it was yesterday- i tend to have this after exams loll)
12- hedonic utilitarianism and the objection it ignores the moral integrity of the individual
25- is anti realism the correct metaethical view?

feel free to comment what was the 2nd moral philosophy 5 marker (exam amnesia lol)

i really liked this paper, even though I hate philosophy loll

it cant be, its already come up as the 25 marker in the 2019 paper and why that over property dualism- its so easy, easier the eliminative materialism. its either property dualism or behaviourism as the m/physics of mind 25 marker.

because it is a new specification and grading, philosophy aqa wants a range of questions to see how students do etc- they cannot repeat a question that only happened 3 years ago- they would want to ask more stuff. just focus on the advanced info now that we know nothing outside of it is coming up- chill out.

1- cosmological arguments and 2- property dualism

it cant be, its already come up as the 25 marker in the 2019 paper and why that over property dualism- its so easy, easier the eliminative materialism. its either property dualism or behaviourism as the m/physics of mind 25 marker.

because it is a new specification and grading, philosophy aqa wants a range of questions to see how students do etc- they cannot repeat a question that only happened 3 years ago- they would want to ask more stuff. just focus on the advanced info now that we know nothing outside of it is coming up- chill out.