AQA A-Level Philosophy | Paper 1 | 2027 Predicted Paper
AQA A-Level Philosophy 7172/1
Predicted Paper 1, 2027
Epistemology and Moral Philosophy
Time allowed: 3 hours
Maximum mark: 100
Answer all questions.
Section A: Epistemology
Question 01
What is meant by infallibilism as an analysis of propositional knowledge?
[3 marks]
Question 02
Explain Plato’s slave-boy argument for innatism.
[5 marks]
Question 03
Explain how the coherence of different kinds of experience can be used to respond to scepticism about the existence of mind-independent objects.
[5 marks]
Question 04
Explain Descartes’ a priori deduction of the external world and how an empiricist might respond to this argument using Hume’s Fork.
[12 marks]
Question 05
Is direct realism a convincing account of perception?
[25 marks]
Total for Section A: 50 marks
Section B: Moral Philosophy
Question 06
What is meant by practical wisdom in Aristotelian virtue ethics?
[3 marks]
Question 07
Explain Kant’s second formulation of the categorical imperative.
[5 marks]
Question 08
Explain how utilitarianism might be applied to the issue of telling lies.
[5 marks]
Question 09
Outline preference utilitarianism and explain why problems with calculation may present an issue for this theory.
[12 marks]
Question 10
Is Kantian deontological ethics a convincing normative ethical theory?
[25 marks]
End of paper
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